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m a rie a n toinet te / na poleon bona pa rte “De La Biblioteque [Sic] De Mon Frere L’Empereur Napoleon”: The Mémoires Of Cardinal De Retz And Joli, 1777-1779, A Six-Volume Set With An Exceedingly Rare And Important Provenance, With Five Volumes From The Library Of Marie-Antoinette, Emblazoned With Her Gilt Armorial Coat Of Arms And Spine Cipher On Each Volume, And A Most Rare Association Copy Of Volume II From The Library Of Napoleon Bonaparte, Inscribed By His Brother Joseph To Napoleon’s Longtime Trusted Friend And Secretary, Baron Méneval 1. (MARIE ANTOINETTE) (NAPOLEON BONAPARTE) GONDI, Jean François Paul de, Cardinal de Retz. Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz. Geneve, 1777-79. WITH: JOLI, Guy. Mémoires de Guy Joli… et Mémoires de Madame la Duchesse de Nemours. Geneva, 1777. Six volumes altogether. Small octavo (4 by 6-3/4 inches), contemporary full brown polished calf gilt, armorial coat of arms, custom wrappers, magnificent custom full crushed morocco presentation gilt box. $55,000. “When kings become

prisoners, they have not long

Rare 1777-79 editions of the four-volume Mémoires of Cardinal de Retz and the 1771 two-volume Mémoires de Guy Joli and Madame la Duchesse de Nemours, an exceptionally rare set possessing an exceedingly rare provenance in association with two to live.” —Marie Antoinette of the most legendary figures in French, and world history—Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte. Five volumes (I, III-VI) in this extraordinary set are from the library of Marie-Antoinette, bound in contemporary calf gilt and displaying her distinctive gilt-tooled armorial coat of arms on the boards, along with her gilt-

With woodcut-engraved vignettes to title pages (I-IV); woodcut engraved head- and tailpieces. Text in French. Graesse VI:94. Marie-Antoinette formed two libraries, one at the Tuileries and one at the Petit Trianon. Volumes in her library at Petit Trianon (Volumes I, III-VI of this copy) are identified by a giltstamped cipher with the initials ‘C[hateau] T[rianon]’ surmounted by a crown (Olivier 2508, fer 15) at the spine end, sometimes also on the upper board (Fletcher, 74). Volumes I, III-VI with inkstamps to title pages stating from “Bibliotheque du premiere consul.” Volume II with unidentified armorial bookplate, occasional lightly penciled marginalia, and small ink mark to margin (p. 387). Trace of bookplate removal (I). Interiors quite fresh with only light scattered foxing, tiny bit of loss to corner not affecting text (II:83), a few minor marginal paper flaws, faint occasional marginal dampstaining in one volume (IV) only, light edge-wear. An exceptional association set in extremely good condition with a most rare provenance.

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stamped crowned cipher “CT” on the spines. Volume II, bound in contemporary mottled calf gilt, is a most rare presentation/association copy, containing a lengthy gift inscription on the front free endpaper by Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, in his presentation of the volume—“de la biblioteque [sic] de mon frere l’ Empereur Napoleon” (from the library of my brother the Emperor Napoleon)—to Baron Claude Francois Méneval, Napoleon’s trusted private secretary and his “only really close friend and confidant.” The Mémoires of Cardinal de Retz continue to be of great influence, offering insights into the use of power not only to Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon, but also to America’s Founding Fathers—notably James Madison.


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sa muel johnson “The Most Amazing, Enduring And Endearing One-Man Feat”: 1755 First Edition Of Johnson’s Landmark Dictionary, From The Library Of The Earl Of Dartmouth 2. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language. London, 1755. Two volumes. Thick folio (11 by 16-1/2 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked and recornered. $38,000. First edition of the first great dictionary of the English language, Johnson’s “audacious attempt to tame his unruly native tongue… combining huge erudition with a steely wit and remarkable clarity of thought” (Hitchings, 3)—“Johnson’s writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton’s discoveries had in mathematics”—with bookplates of the Earl of Dartmouth. “Johnson’s Dictionary made him a superstar. To be sure, there had been dictionaries before his. The difference is that, while these were compiled, Johnson’s was written… The glory of the book is that it is also a compendium of English literature, reprinting fine examples of words from the masters, often Shakespeare or Sir Francis Bacon. Johnson sought to ‘intersperse with verdure and flowers the dusty desarts of barren philology’” (Smithsonian Book of Books). “Dr. Johnson performed with his Dictionary the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography” (PMM 201). Carlyle paid this tribute: “Had Johnson left nothing but his Dictionary, one might have traced there a great intellect, a genuine man” (Baugh et al., 992). Title pages printed in red and black. Courtney & Smith, 54. Grolier 100. Rothschild 1237. Bookplates of the Earl of Dartmouth, a de“Johnson’s writings had, in philology, scendant of William Legge, first Earl of Dartmouth and his father, George Legge, first Baron of Dartmouth. The Baron of Dartmouth, an admiral the effect which Newton’s discoveries and commander under James II, was a “lifelong friend and adherent of James,” and this association eventually lead to his death in the Tower in had in mathematics.” —Noah Webster 1691 (DNB). Containing library shelf labels of Patshull estate, acquired by the Fifth Earl of Dartmouth in 1848 and considered “one of the most magnificent mansions to be found in the County of Stafford,” with its library described as “filled from floor to ceiling with valuable works, chiefly of an historical and classical character”(Williams, Mansions and County Seats, 61-66). Interior generally fresh with light scattered foxing, faint occasional marginal dampstaining minimally affecting text, minor expert archival reinforcement to inner paper hinges, expected wear to contemporary calf. An extremely good copy of this linguistic and literary landmark, with exceptional provenance.

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“Beware The Ides Of March”: First Quarto Edition Of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, 1684 3. SHAKESPEARE, William. Julius Caesar. A Tragedy. As it is Now Acted at the Theatre Royal. London: Printed by H. H. Jun. for Hen. Heringman and R. Bentley, 1684. Slim quarto (6-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches), early 20th-century full red crushed morocco gilt, custom chemise and half morocco slipcase. $75,000. Exceedingly rare first quarto edition of Shakespeare’s immortal Julius Caesar, the first separate printing of the play, an especially lovely copy, handsomely bound in full morocco gilt. “Something extraordinary was beginning to happen as Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar in the spring of 1599… as if all his energies were self-consciously focused on a new and different kind of invention… The result was a significant breakthrough,” one richly expressed in “the extraordinary lines of Brutus, deep in thought, as he sets in motion one of the most consequential events in Western history. It’s one of Shakespeare’s first great soliloquies and conveys a sense of inwardness new to the stage: ‘Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream’” (Shapiro, Year in the Life, 134-5). First performed in 1599, Julius Caesar, along with Henry V, displays “the culmination of Shakespeare’s middle style… Shakespeare had in these plays reached the top of his career” (Baugh et al., 527). Julius Caesar ran through six quarto editions in the 17th century, a clear indication of its great popularity among audiences of the day. Thomas Betterton played the role of Brutus in the production “Shakepeare’s Roman of 1684, ensuring the play’s enormous popularity. Julius Caesar was first printed in the 1623 First Folio. Sixteen of Shakespeare’s plays were first printed in quarto form tragedy has run through (1594 to 1622) before the publication of the 1623 First Folio; of the 20 plays which made their first appearance in the First Folio, only three appeared in quarto form more editions, and more during the 17th century: The Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth (each in one quarto copies, than any play in the edition) and Julius Caesar (in six quarto editions). Such Shakespeare quartos have become nearly unobtainable. When offering a copy of Julius Caesar in 1920, language...Continually Rosenbach noted that the first quarto edition of the play is “of the utmost rarity.” “This was the first play by Shakespeare founded on Sir Thomas North’s translation recalled to the stage for four of Plutarch’s Lives, which appeared in 1579 and was reprinted in 1595. Shakespeare used portions of the lives of Caesar, Antony and Brutus and followed Plutarch very hundred years— a play for closely” (Bartlett, Mr. William Shakespeare, 47). Occasional mispagination as issued without loss of text. Bartlett 112. Bartlett Census, 33. Wing S2922. See all times and all audiences.” Pforzheimer 886. Some old dampstaining, final six leaves with neatly repaired holes to lower quarter of leaf, with a few characters in neat manuscript facsimile. A —Steve Sohmer lovely copy. Extremely rare.

w illi a m sh a k espea re “Is This A Dagger Which I See Before Me?”: The 1674 Quarto Of Macbeth, Davenant’s Version 4. SHAKESPEARE, William [D’AVENANT, William]. Macbeth, a Tragedy: With all the Alterations, Amendments, Additions, and New Songs. As it is now Acted at the Duke’s Theatre. London: Printed for P. Chetwin, 1674. Slim quarto (6-3/4 by 8-1/4 inches), 20th-century plain paper wrappers, custom cloth chemise. $65,000. Extraordinarily rare second quarto and first Davenant edition of Macbeth, printed one year after the virtually unobtainable first quarto. Appearing first in the 1623 collected First Folio of Shakespeare, Macbeth was not published separately until the first quarto edition of 1673, which was primarily a reprint of the folio text. The poet and dramatist William Davenant, who was rumored to have been Shakespeare’s illegitimate son (the playwright was known to frequent the tavern owned by John Davenant and his wife, “a very beautiful woman of a good wit,” during his journeys between London and Stratford), began work on an adaptation of Macbeth as early as 1666. By 1673 Davenant’s version was enjoying theatrical “Some of Shakepeare’s plays... success in London and in response to this the first quarto edition of the play was issued, which included three additional witches’ songs from Davenant’s I have gone over perhaps as production. In 1674 the first full edition of Davenant’s text appeared and both Philip Chetwin and A. Clark published quarto editions. Both of these frequently as any unprofessional printings include revised versions of several speeches, two new scenes which were entirely Davenant’s own creation, and the three songs which first reader...Lear, Richard Third, Henry appeared in the 1673 quarto. Even so, compared to other early editors (most Eighth, Hamlet, and especially infamously Nathan Tate, who gave King Lear a happy ending) Davenant was relatively faithful to Shakespeare’s text. This Chetwin edition is often thought Macbeth. I think nothing equals to precede the Clark edition issued the same year by a matter of weeks or months, making the present copy the first Davenant edition and the second Macbeth. It is wonderful.” quarto edition overall. Both 1674 editions, and indeed all Restoration quartos of Macbeth, are now extraordinarily rare; Pforzheimer did not own anything —Abraham Lincoln earlier than the 1687 Davenant reprint, and only a handful of 17th-century printings have appeared on the market in 25 years. Pagination irregular as issued without loss of text. Wing S 2930. Jaggard, 381. Bartlett 166. See Pforzheimer 914. Small tears to inner blank margin of title page, last leaf a little narrow, generally clean and fresh with generous margins. Near-fine condition, most scarce and desirable.


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thom a s mck en ney a nd ja mes h a ll First Edition Of McKenney And Hall’s History Of The Indian Tribes Of North America, With 120 Extraordinary Large Folio Hand-Colored Portraits Of American Indians 5. MCKENNEY, Thomas and HALL, James. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Philadelphia, 1842-44. Three volumes. Folio (15 by 21 inches), period-style three-quarter green morocco gilt. $175,000. The rare, monumental first folio edition of one of the landmarks of American history, an excellent copy complete with 120 bright and fully hand-colored lithographic plates after Charles Bird King’s original oil paintings, “the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed.” An exceptionally clean and finely colored copy with notably wide margins. McKenney began dreaming of an Indian Archive, “preserved for the information of “A faithful recording of the future generations and long after the Indians will have been no more,” in 1816 and for the next 15 years commissioned Charles Bird King to paint portraits of famous features and dress of celebrated Indian leaders from tribes visiting Washington. McKenney planned to publish reproductions of the paintings in book form, eventually moving to Philadelphia to American Indians who lived complete the project. “McKenney survived near-poverty and bitter battles with a succession of printers before his portfolio was published… The three-volume set is and died long before the age now one of the most valued items of Americana, usually found only in rare book rooms of libraries and museums. They offer the finest example of early American of photography… Truly a lithography on stone… In 1865, the gallery of original portraits, then housed in the landmark in American Smithsonian Institution, was damaged by fire.” To this day, no bibliographer has successfully untangled the printing history of the portfolio. As the book passed culture.” —James D. Horan through the hands of various publishers, many of the plates were redrawn or otherwise altered and some were republished to complete sets of sheets produced by the earliest printings. Some sequence of the order of title pages of the three volumes has been established in the Bibliography of American Literature, but at best the title page can only indicate when the volumes were put together to fulfill a subscriber’s order; inevitably copies contained all sorts of combinations of plates, as they were evidently stockpiled to some extent and pulled when needed. This set of mixed issue, as usual: Volume I (BAL’s State E), Volume II (BAL’s State B) and Volume III (BAL’s State A). Bound without the printed list of subscribers. BAL 6934. Howes M129. Sabin 43411. Field 992. Quotes above drawn from The Indian Legacy of Charles Bird King, 68-87 and The McKenney and Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians, 21-24. Marginal paper repair to one text leaf (only) in Volume I. Plates and text exceptionally clean, hand-coloring remarkably fine and vivid. A lovely wide-margined copy, beautifully bound.


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Exceedingly Rare Archive Of Autograph Materials Related To Churchill’s The Second World War, Including A Typed Signed Letter From Churchill To His Proofreader C.C. Wood, 12 Pages Of Virtually Unobtainable Galley Proofs From The Second World War, Heavily Annotated By Both Churchill And Wood, And A First English Edition Set Of The Second World War, In Original Dust Jackets


6. CHURCHILL, Winston. Typed letter signed. WITH: Twelve pages of galley proofs annotated. WITH: The Second World War. Marrakech, Morocco and London, 1963 and (1948-54). Portfolio and six volumes. Thirteen sheets of paper (full legal to 7 inches by 4 inches), custom cloth portfolio; Octavo, original black cloth, dust jackets. $59,000. Rare and important Churchill archive featuring a typed signed letter from Churchill to the chief editor at Harrap who helped publish his critically acclaimed biography of Marlborough in 1933, 12 exceptionally rare pages of galley proofs from The Second World War heavily annotated by both Wood and Churchill featuring dozens of corrections in Churchill’s hand present in the final text, and first English editions of Churchill’s WWII masterpiece, in the original dust jackets. This exceedingly rare archive contained one of the only known examples of galley proofs of The Second World War amended by Winston Churchill. Only a few pages from The Second World War have ever appeared on the open market and none are known to have been offered within the last few decades. In fact, any galley proofs featuring annotations by Churchill are extremely rare. The archive opens with a typed letter signed “W. Churchill,” dated December 16, 1947 and addressed to the chief copy editor at George G. Harrap, who published Churchill’s acclaimed biography of Marlborough. It reads: “Dear Mr. Wood, It was kind of you to write to me for my birthday, and I thank you very much. I will certainly bear in mind your offer to read through the final proofs of my War Memoirs. With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year, Yours sincerely, [signed] W. Churchill.” "By giving his version of the

greatest of all wars, and his own

What follows are 12 heavily annotated pages of galley proofs from a chapter focusing on the relationship between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in role in it, he knew he was fighting Volume 3, “The Grand Alliance.” All together, there are over 270 words written in Churchill’s hand. Churchill’s corrections and additions are in red and blue for his ultimate place in history." ink and represent the majority of the annotations. Wood’s suggestions are in green ink and graphite pencil. Blue crayon has been used to strike out words —Paul Johnson and passages; its user is not identifiable. Almost all of Churchill’s blue pen corrections are in the final version of the book and many of the red corrections are present as well. The content and corrections focus heavily on the Greek campaign, a turning point in the war. Here, in the proofs, it is possible to see the development and fine tuning of both Churchill’s ideas and his writing. For instance, he writes, in order to add an important comparison, “We were now confronted with another one of those evacuations by sea, which we had endured in 1940… at Dunkirk, on the whole we had air mastery. In Greece, the [Germans] were in complete and undisputed control of the air and could maintain [almost continuous attack on the ports and on the retreating army].” His corrections and emendations constitute an ongoing refinement both of his literary style and of his perceptions of the events of the war. The archive also includes the six volumes of Churchill’s masterpiece. Although preceded by the American editions, the English editions are generally preferred for their profusion of diagrams, maps, and facsimile documents. Archive near-fine, with a few paper clip marks and hole punches to corners of letters and galleys, faint pinpoint foxing to galleys. Books fresh and fine. Light wear to extremities of bright dust jackets, with a one-inch abrasion to spine of Volume II, affecting the word “Hour.” If desired, the manuscript portion of this offering can be purchased separately. An extraordinary archive relating to Churchill’s most important work, presenting a rare insight into both Churchill’s world philosophy and literary development.


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“The School Of War Is War”: General George S. Patton’s Own Copy Of Freeman’s Landmark Biography Of Robert E. Lee, Signed By Him In Both Volumes And Annotated With Over 1600 Words Of Marginalia


7. FREEMAN, Douglas Southall. R.E. Lee: A Biography. New York and London, 1935. Two volumes. Octavo, original red cloth. $35,000. Patton’s own copy of the first two volumes of Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert E. Lee, both volumes signed by Patton and with over 1600 words of marginalia in Patton’s hand, providing a detailed link between two of America’s greatest generals. This is General George S. Patton Jr.’s own copy, signed by him in each volume and on the front covers, of the first two volumes of Freeman’s landmark biography of Robert E. Lee, awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1935. A rare signed association copy, this offers striking evidence of Patton’s fierce commitment to war is war.” the lessons of history, placing him “in the pantheon of authentic American heroes… Patton’s great success on the battlefield did not come about by chance… He read voraciously and not only learned from what he read but managed to remember virtually all of it… During the interwar years Patton consulted an eclectic list of the famous and the lesser known, ranging from Napoleon and Clausewitz to du Picq… [Patton] read, studied, and absorbed what he read into his own evolving concept of war and how to fight it” (D’Este, Patton, 2-4, 317-792). “It was Patton’s custom to scribble in the margins of his books and later type or inscribe the results—often on note cards—into a synopsis that became a permanent part of his personal papers” (D’Este, 317). The sheer volume of annotations in this work is a testament to both the importance of the work to Patton and the amount of time he spent carefully studying it. A student of Civil War cavalry, he studied its mobility and its uses and used the same tactics with the tank as commander first of the Seventh Army in Northern Africa and Sicily and then of the Third Army in its decisive sweep across France in 1944. Among the over 1600 words Patton wrote in the margins of these volumes:

“The school of

“The school of war is war,” next to a discussion of how Lee’s experiences in the Mexican War were essential learning experiences he later drew upon in the Civil War. “I am 49 and a Lt. Col/oh! God 15 years… hope yet… great hope… men live on deeds, not years,” next to a passage about Lee and Napoleon. “My grandfather Patton was of these and was prepared to go South if Virginia failed to secede… Taswell Patton held Papa in his arms so he could see the ordnance of secession read from the steps of the Capital at Richmond,” next to a discussion that refers to some of Patton’s famous ancestors, both of whom were killed in action during the Civil War. “He probably felt a great calm. He had done his part, the rest depended on Luck— Courage—and God,” next to a discussion of Jefferson Davis wanting Lee to assume command of the Army. A full list of Patton’s notations and their context is included. These two volumes of Freeman’s biography, first published a year earlier in 1934, were completed in 1935 by the concluding two volumes, not present here. Dornbusch II: 2930. Haynes 6441. Light dampstaining to text, expert restoration to cloth. An extraordinary piece of American military history.


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m a rtin lu ther k ing jr . Strength To Love, Inscribed By Martin Luther King, Jr. 8. KING Jr., Martin Luther. Strength to Love. New York, Evanston, and London, 1963. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $16,500. First edition of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s second book, inscribed by the author and civil rights leader: “Best Wishes, Martin Luther King,” in original dust jacket. Strength to Love was Dr. King’s first volume of sermons, published the same year in which he penned his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” joined the historic March on Washington and delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech. The following year he won the Nobel Peace Prize. King notes in the preface: “In these turbulent days of uncertainty the evils of war and of economic and racial injustice threaten the very survival of the human race. Indeed, we live in a day of grave crisis. The sermons in this volume have the present crisis as their background; and they have been selected for this volume because, in one way or another, they deal with the personal and collective problems that the crisis presents.” Old ink notation to dust jacket front flap. Book fine, bright original dust jacket with light rubbing to spine ends, short closed tear to rear panel. An attractive and desirable inscribed copy in very nearly fine condition.

“We will meet the forces of hate with the power of love.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.


w inston churchill “The European Has Neither The Wish Nor The Power To Constitute A White Proletariat In Countries Like East Africa”: Churchill’s My African Journey, 1908, Inscribed By Churchill In The Year Of Publication 9. CHURCHILL, Winston. My African Journey. London, 1908. Octavo, original pictorial red cloth, custom clamshell box. $16,000. First edition of this early Churchill travelogue, with three full-page maps and over 60 photographs, many taken by Churchill, inscribed in the year of publication, “From Winston S. Churchill, 1 Dec 1908.”

“For the formation of opinion, for the stirring enlivenment of thought, and for the discernment of color and proportion, the gifts

As undersecretary of State for the Colonies in 1907, Churchill traveled to Africa on a tour of inspection. He “saw the advantages of producing a travelogue on of travel… are priceless.” Britain’s valuable possessions in East Africa. Among these, Churchill waxes —Winston Churchill most eloquent on Uganda, which he calls ‘a pearl’” (Langworth, 80). My African Journey “includes photographs allegedly taken by Churchill, the only such appearance in the canon; the text is important because it shows Churchill raising prescient questions involving the betterment of the East African population” (Langworth, 80). Cohen A27.1. Woods A12. Langworth, 80-83. Occasional owner pencil annotations to margins of Chapter IX. Occasional scattered light foxing to interior; embrowning to free endpapers (as often). Covers of original cloth quite bright and lovely with light fading to spine. A most desirable inscribed copy.


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ja mes ford rhodes Lovely Extra-Illustrated Set With Over 200 Original Autographs Including Lincoln, Jefferson And Washington, And Major Civil War Generals, Including Grant) Original Albumen Photographs, Slave Broadside And Exceptional Ephemera Of The Civil War Era, Bound In 16 Volumes Of Rhodes’ History Of The United States 10. RHODES, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877. New York, 1906-09. Eight volumes bound in 16. Octavo, contemporary threequarter crushed brown morocco. $79,000.

A classic work on the Civil War era, extra-illustrated with nearly 200 autographs, photographs and documents.

Lavishly extra-illustrated set of Rhodes’ “stunning and moving narrative” of the Civil War era, with the addition of nearly 200 autographs and other, important miscellaneous ephemera, albumen photographs and cartes-devisite, with many signatures of the principal players of the Civil War era neatly placed beneath their engraved portraits. Includes the signatures of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, a broad assortment of Union and Confederate officers and politicians, cultural and literary leaders

Rhodes’ History, originally issued from 1893 to 1906, is considered a “landmark in American historiography” (76 United Statesiana, 20). “Writing while the memory of fratricidal strife was still green, Rhodes brought to his gigantic task great industry, good judgment, and for his day, notable fair-mindedness. His thoroughness and his skill in handling vast materials were immediately recognized… His contemporaries, however, were most impressed by his candor and relative freedom from partisanship. Indeed, the spirit of the work, more than anything else, made it epochal” (DAB). Full list of signatures and inserted material available upon request. Fine condition, handsomely bound. A splendidly extra-illustrated set.


such as Stephen Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and also the signatures of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (together). Includes as well more than 100 contemporary albumen photographs and cartes-de-visite. Ephemeral items include a silk campaign ribbon for “GEARY AND THE UNION” showing Geary in uniform; actual, unfaded fabric swatch from the Confederate Flag famously taken down by Co. Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, May 24, 1861, at Marshall House, Alexandria, VA; Emancipation Petition document signed by the citizens of St. Clair, Schuylkill County, PA; a slave broadside from Charleston, SC, dated 1853; and other relics from the era that add depth to Rhodes’ history. Handsomely bound by Root & Son.


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“One Of The Most Magnificent Atlases Ever Published In The United States”: Tanner’s New American Atlas, Very Scarce And Important 1825 Edition, With 18 Large Folio Hand-Colored Maps, In Lovely Presentation Binding 11. TANNER, H.S. A New American Atlas, Containing Maps of the Several States of the North American Union. Philadelphia, 1825. Folio, original full brown calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down.$75,000. Scarce 1825 edition of Tanner’s Atlas, “one of the most magnificent atlases ever published in the United States,” engraved during the “Golden Age of American Cartography” (Ristow), with 18 very large double-page handcolored engraved maps (two even larger, double-page and folding). An excellent copy in contemporary presentation binding from the City of New York to Alderman William H. Ireland. Born in New York City, Henry Schenck Tanner “was endowed with that combination of scientific and artistic sense that spells the true cartographer and that led him ultimately to produce for his time the outstanding map representations of the territory of the United States, based on a critical study of the source material” (DAB). He together with John Melish played major roles “in laying the foundations of American commercial map publishing” (Ristow, 180). Tanner’s Atlas, first published 1819-23, is considered “a landmark in American cartography” and “one of the first comprehensive atlases of the United States produced by an American publisher… [His work] represents the first analytical compilation of existing cartographic and geographic data for the United States as a whole” (Schwartz & Ehrenberg, 251, 240). Howes T29. Sabin 94319. Wheat “A landmark in American Transmississippi 350. Maps bright and clean, original coloring vivid. cartography… one of the Large map of North America measuring 45 by 59 inches, maps of first comprehensive atlases Europe, Asia and Pennsylvania of the United States with original linen reinforcement at folds (archivally treated), minor produced by an American restoration to contemporary leather boards. A beautiful copy in original publisher.” presentation binding. Rare.

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the feder a list Very Rare And Important First Edition Of The Federalist: “The Most Famous And Influential American Political Work,” An Exceptional Copy In Full Contemporary Sheep 12. (HAMILTON, Alexander; MADISON, James; JAY, John). The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, Agreed Upon By the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. New York, 1788. Two volumes bound in one. 12mo, contemporary full sheep; pp. vi, 227, vi, 384, custom chemise and full morocco clamshell box. $260,000. First edition of The Federalist, one of the rarest and most significant books in American political history, which “exerted a powerful influence in procuring the adoption of the Federal Constitution.” An exceptional copy in full contemporary sheep. “When Alexander Hamilton invited his fellow New Yorker John Jay and James Madison, a Virginian, to join him in writing the series of essays published as The Federalist, it was to meet the immediate need of convincing the reluctant New York State electorate of the necessity of ratifying the newly proposed Constitution of the United States. The 85 essays, under the pseudonym ‘Publius,’ were designed as political propaganda, not “The best commentary on as a treatise of political philosophy. In spite of this, The Federalist survives as one of the new nation’s most important contributions to the theory of government” (PMM, 234). “A the principles of government generation passed before it was recognized that these essays by the principal author of the which ever was written.” Constitution and its brilliant advocate were the most authoritative interpretation of the Constitution as drafted by the Convention of 1787” (Grolier American 100, 56). Of the only —Thomas Jefferson 500 copies published, Hamilton is said to have sent nearly 50 copies to Virginia for the ratifying convention. The remaining 450 copies sold poorly, and “the publishers complained in October 1788, long after New York had ratified the Constitution, that they still had several hundred unsold copies” (Maggs, 815). Without initial blanks. Sabin 23979. Howes H114(c). Streeter II:1049. Ford 17. Early owner signature. Occasional neat ink and pencil annotations. Text generally quite clean. Closed tear and early repair to Q2 affecting only a few letters, blank top edges of title pages with expert paper restoration, a few tiny tears and spots barely affecting text. Headcap and joints expertly repaired, just a few minor stains and a bit of wear to contemporary binding. A handsome copy of an exceptionally rare and important work, even more scarce in contemporary sheep.


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benja min fr a nk lin “American Revolution Began… With Resistance To The Stamp Act”: Important First Edition Of Franklin’s Last Poor Richard, 1765, Containing The Text Of The Incendiary Stamp Act 13. (STAMP ACT) (FRANKLIN, Benjamin). Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1765. 12mo, original printed selfwrappers, renewed stitching, custom cloth chemise. $32,000. First edition of the last Poor Richard to be printed and published by Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, issued in late 1765 for the year 1766, containing the text of the notorious Stamp Act, with the famed woodcut of anatomical man “govern’d” by constellations and 12 woodcut-engraved panels. Rarely found complete and uncut. The Stamp Act especially angered colonial printers such as Franklin’s partner David Hall, who did not advertise, as was his habit, this Almanack in the fall of 1765—likely due to “the turmoil over the Stamp Act” (Miller 851). Franklin, who once urged conciliation between famous of almanacs.” enraged Americans and the punitive Parliament, increasingly warned that the Stamp Act would ultimately lay “the foundation of a future total separation. If Parliament sent troops —Paul Leister Ford to compel enforcement, Franklin noted: “They will not find a rebellion; they may indeed make one” (Isaacson, 228-31). Franklin’s brilliant defense of the colonies directly affected Britain’s repeal of the Stamp Act, but by then, colonial rebellion could not be undone. While Franklin, after 1748, was no longer involved in the routine operations of his and Hall’s busy printing concern, Franklin scholarship and bibliographic authorities clearly note that his over-arching authorship role of the almanacs continued, along with the opportune supervision of their printing. Miller 852. Text professionally cleaned, with stitching renewed. A few edge tears professionally mended with tissue. One leaf with minor marginal trim not affecting text. A near-fine copy of an American classic, unusual to find complete.

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“The Magna Carta Of The United States”: The “First Authorized” Printing In Book Form Of The Declaration Of Independence—Scarce Association Copy Belonging To A Revolutionary War General


14. (CONSTITUTION) (DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE). The Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America. Philadelphia, 1781. Small octavo, contemporary full brown sheep rebacked and recornered with original spine laid down, custom clamshell box. $38,000. Exceedingly rare and important first collected edition of the Constitutions of the 13 American states, one of only 200 copies printed for Congress, an exceptionally memorable association copy containing the bookplate of Ezekiel Cornell, who served as a general in the Revolution and was on Washington’s staff before being chosen to represent Rhode Island as a member of the Continental Congress (1780-1782), this work containing the “first authorized reprint in book form of the Declaration of Independence,” along with key early printings of the Articles of Confederation and major early treaties, especially scarce in contemporary sheep. Published by order of Congress, this important collection is the first authoritative and original printed text of the constitutions of the 13 states. The collection also contains printings of a number of other influential American documents: including the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the 1778 treaty of amity and commerce with France (the first treaty between the United States and any other country) and the treaty of alliance with France. Many constitutional scholars have demonstrated that the political systems and initiatives of the state constitutions were vital to the construction of the Federal Constitution of 1787. Although the imprint reads Philadelphia, this volume was actually published by Bailey in Lancaster, where he had moved with Congress after the British “It contains a greater portion of occupation of Philadelphia began in September 1781. Sabin 16086. Howes C716. Evans 17390. unsophisticated wisdom and good This rare association copy possesses an especially distinctive provenance in sense, than is, perhaps, to be met containing the owner bookplate of Ezekiel Cornell, who represented Rhode Island as a delegate to the U.S. Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782 after with in any other legislative code leading his fellow Americans into battle as a general in the Revolution. “Cornell that was ever yet framed. It is… participated in the siege of Boston as well as the action in and around New York and Long Island… Later that year, Cornell was with Washington’s staff the Magna Carta of the United during the attack against Trenton in American States.” —Monthly Review December 1776 and Princeton in early January 1777” (Hannings, 81). Small bit of early annotation, marginalia. Trace of plate removal to initial blank and gutter edge of title page. Text professionally but lightly cleaned; original rear endpapers with a bit of wormholing. An extremely good copy in handsome contemporary sheep of this foundational work in America’s constitutional history.


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fr a ncis bacon The Birth Of The Scientific Method: 1620 First Edition Of Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum 15. BACON, Francis. Novum Organum. London, 1620. Folio, contemporary sprinkled calf skillfully rebacked and recornered. $38,000. First edition of Bacon’s Novum Organum (a “new instrument” to replace the old Organon of Aristotle), which had a revolutionary impact on early modern science by laying the foundation of the inductive method. Bacon’s “insistence on making science experimental and factual, rather than speculative and philosophical, had powerful consequences. He saw clearly the limitations of Aristotelian and scholastic methods… As a philosopher Bacon’s influence on Locke and through him on subsequent English schools of psychology and ethics was profound. Leibniz, Huygens and particularly Robert Boyle were deeply indebted to him, as were the “His insistence on making Encyclopédistes, and Voltaire, who called him ‘le père de la philosophie experimentale’” (PMM). The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society were science experimental and soon to be filled with exactly the kind of “Histories,” careful collections of experimental data, that Bacon here recommends. As usual, this copy is the factual, rather than second state, with leaf e3 cancelled and reprinted on e4 with errata added and the name of the printer Bill present. Text in Latin. Gibson 103b. Grolier/ speculative and philosophical, only Horblit 8b (1st issue). Norman I:98. PMM 119. Ownership inscription at head of had powerful consequences.” title; 18th-century manuscript notes on both sides of the initial blank; some underlining and marginal marks in the preface. From the library of the Irish —Printing & the Mind of Man classical scholar John Walker (1769–1833), founder of the Walkerites, with his ownership inscription at the head of the engraved title “John Walker, T.C.D.” (retrospectively dated 1815), and with his manuscript notes in Latin about the book on both sides of the initial blank leaf. Very infrequent scattered light foxing, with occasional marginal pinpoint wormholing, not affecting readability. Age-wear to contemporary calf boards, with a few cuts, wormholes on rear board. A desirable copy in very good condition of this landmark.

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16. (NEWTON, Isaac). Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London, 1704. Quarto, contemporary full brown paneled calf gilt rebacked with original spine panels and spine label laid down. $85,000. First edition, first issue, of Newton’s famous treatise on light and the spectrum, “one of the supreme productions of the human mind” (Andrade), with 19 copper-engraved folding plates. Also contains the first printing of Newton’s two treatises on curvilinear figures (in Latin), “intended to assert Newton’s priority to the discovery of the calculus over Leibniz” (Dibner 148). Handsome in contemporary calf. As his Principia was “One of the supreme the epitome of theoretical physics, productions of the Newton’s Opticks demonstrates his mastery of the experimental method. “All previous philosophers had been sure that white light is pure and simple, regarding colours as human mind.” modifications or qualifications of the white. Newton showed experimentally that the —E.N. da Costa Andrade opposite is true… Natural white light, far from being simple, is a compound of many pure elementary colors which can be separated and recompounded at will” (PMM 172). “Unlike most of Newton’s works, Opticks was originally published in English… The work “Newton’s masterpiece of summarized [thirty-three years of] Newton’s discoveries and theories concerning light and color: the spectrum of sunlight, the degrees of refraction associated with different experimental physics.” colors, the color circle (the first in the history of color theory), the invention of the reflecting telescope; the first workable theory of the rainbow, and experiments on what would —Encyclopaedia Britannica later be called ‘interference effects’ in conjunction with Newton’s rings” (Norman 1588). This first issue was published anonymously, with only the initials “I.N.” at the end of the Advertisement. A later issue printed the same year contains the author’s name on the title page, but lacks the two treatises and has only 12 plates. Gray 174. Horblit 79b. Early owner signature on title page, occasional ink marginalia in a neat early hand. Text and plates clean and fine, only leaf Aaa4 with repaired closed tear, not affecting legibility. Restoration to corners. A handsome, near-fine copy in nicely restored contemporary calf.


“Whence Arises All That Order And Beauty We See In The World”: 1704 First Edition Of Newton’s Opticks, “One Of The Two Pillars Of Newton’s Imperishable Reputation In Science”

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thom a s pa ine “The Cause Of America Is… The Cause Of All Mankind”: Rare 1776 London Edition Of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “The Most Influential Tract Of The American Revolution,” With Additions To Common Sense And Chalmers’ Plain Truth 17. [PAINE, Thomas] [CHALMERS, James]. Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America… A New Edition, with several Additions in the Body of the Work. To which is added an Appendix; together with an Address to the People called Quakers. Philadelphia. BOUND WITH: [CHALMERS, James] Plain Truth: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America concerning Remarks on a late Pamphlet, Intitled Common Sense…. Written by Candidus. Second Edition. BOUND WITH: [PEMBERTON, John, et al.] Additions to Common Sense. American Independency Defended. Philadelphia, Printed and London, Re-Printed, 1776. Octavo, contemporary full brown sheep gilt rebacked. $20,000. Rare 1776 London edition of Paine’s Common Sense, printed within months of the first American edition, a work of such paramount interest to both America and Britain that this fourth London edition was issued almost certainly before the Declaration of Independence—that founding document whose issuance on July 4, 1776 “was due more to Paine’s Common Sense than to any one other single piece of writing,” bound in one volume with the scarce second edition of Plain Truth, attributed to James Chalmers and considered “The Declaration of “the most famous answer to Paine’s advocacy for independence in Common Sense” Independence… was due more (Howes), along with Additions to Common Sense by various authors and featuring an early retranslated draft of the Articles of Confederation.

to Paine’s Common Sense than

This scarce fourth British edition of Common Sense, issued in 1776, the same year to any one other single piece of as the first, contains Paine’s additions, increasing the original work by one-third. Like most English editions, this contains hiatuses deleting material critical of the writing.” —Grolier, One Hundred English crown and government to avoid prosecution. This copy is notably bound, as issued, with the second British edition of Plain Truth. In addition, this copy is Influential American Books bound with Additions to Common Sense: a collection of ten essays responding to Paine’s Common Sense (though none were written by Paine). All 1776 editions of Common Sense are rare and desirable and increasingly difficult to obtain. Interestingly, many of the hiatuses in this copy of Common Sense have been filled in with manuscript shorthand phrases. Text very fresh with light scattered foxing, only mild soiling, with two rear leaves of Plain Truth supplied from another copy. A most rare extremely good copy.


robert e . lee / henry lee “Not Only One Of The First But One Of The Best Of American Cavalry Soldiers”: Signed By General Robert E. Lee, “Light-Horse Harry” Lee’s Memoirs Of The War, Exceedingly Rare Large Paper Copy Signed By His Son, Robert E. Lee 18. (LEE, Robert E.) LEE, Henry. Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States… A New Edition, with Revisions, and a Biography of the Author, by Robert E. Lee. New York, 1869. Octavo, original dark brown cloth rebacked with original spine laid down. $28,000. Revised edition (the first to contain Robert E. Lee’s biography of his father) of this history of the Revolutionary War’s southern theater by Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, one of “only a few copies on large paper” (Howes), handsomely illustrated with five steel-engraved plates (including a portrait of Robert E. Lee), a wood-engraved view, and five wood-engraved battle plans, uncut and partially “One of the classic and core unopened, in original cloth blindstamped with the Lee coat-of-arms and motto. primary source documents of This copy signed by Robert E. Lee. Henry Lee, “not only one of the first but one of the best of American cavalry the American Revolution in soldiers,” was initially summoned by General Washington to serve as his aide-decamp, but Lee “declined because he preferred to stay with the cavalry. He was the South.” —Douglas Cubbison promoted to major by Congress on 7 April 1778 and given command of an independent partisan corps… As commander of this corps, which came to be known as ‘Lee’s Legion,’ Lee acquired the sobriquet Light-Horse Harry. On 19 August, with great skill and bravery, he attacked a British garrison at Paulus Hook, New Jersey, catching it completely off guard and capturing 158 prisoners” (ANB). Lee was promoted and sent to serve with General Nathanael Greene where, “in the remarkable retreat across North Carolina to Virginia, in February 1781, Lee covered the rear of Greene’s army” (DAB). Lee was also at the siege of Yorktown and witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis. His fifth child with second wife Anne Hill Carter was Robert E. Lee. First published in 1812; a second edition with revisions appeared in 1827. This 1869 edition is the first to include Robert Lee’s biography of his father. Howes L202. Sabin 39743. Text, plates, maps and Lee’s signature quite fresh, a few text leaves roughly opened, tiny bit of expert marginal reinforcement to title page, lightest edge-wear to bright gilt-stamped cloth. A wonderful near-fine copy, most desirable with the signature of Robert E. Lee.


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jesse l . li v er more Livermore’s How To Trade In Stocks, 1940 First Edition, With Exceedingly Scarce Original Dust Jacket 19. LIVERMORE, Jesse L. How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price. New York, 1940. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $17,500. First edition of the only book by Jesse Livermore, one of Wall Street’s most flamboyant stock traders, featuring the first in-depth explanation of the famed Livermore Formula, his highly successful trading method still in use today, and containing 16 full color charts. An exceptional copy in extremely scarce unrestored original dust jacket. The only book written by Jesse L. Livermore, widely believed to be the subject of Edwin “Profits always take care Lefevre’s fictional biography and investment classic Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. One of the most flamboyant figures on Wall Street in the first half of the 20th century, Livermore of themselves, but losses made and lost several fortunes and was even blamed for the stock market crash of 1929. Intrigued by Livermore’s career, financial writer Edwin Lefevre conducted weeks of never do.” —Jesse Livermore interviews with him during the early 1920s. Then, in 1923, Lefevre wrote a first-person account of a fictional trader named “Larry Livingston,” who bore countless similarities to Livermore, ranging from their last names to the specific events of their trading careers. Although many traders attempted to glean the secret of Livermore’s success from Reminiscences, his technique was not fully elucidated until this work was published in 1940. How to Trade in Stocks offers an in-depth explanation of the Livermore Formula, the trading method, still in use today, that turned Livermore into a Wall Street icon. With bright, exceptionally scarce dust jacket, almost never found. Interior very fresh and clean with only lightest scattered foxing, tiny bit of edge-wear to about-fine book; slight chipping to spine ends and rear panel, faint dampstaining, minor soiling to bright extremely good dust jacket. Very rare in an unrestored dust jacket.


ay n r a nd Inscribed By Ayn Rand: Most Rare And Desirable First Edition Of The Fountainhead, In First-Issue Dust Jacket 20. RAND, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Indianapolis and New York, 1943. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket, custom half morocco clamshell box. $55,000. First edition, first issue, of Rand’s best-selling and unforgettable celebration of the individual spirit, in rare first-issue dust jacket, inscribed: “To —— Cordially — Ayn Rand, 11/3/72.”

“A hymn of praise of the individual.”

In The Fountainhead—Rand’s first major Objectivist novel as well as her first best-seller— “Rand has taken her stand against collectivism, ‘the rule of the second-hander, the ancient —Lorine Pruette monster,’ which has brought men ‘to a level of intellectual indecency never equalled on earth.’ She has written a hymn in praise of the individual” (Lorine Pruette). First issue, bound in red cloth, with first edition stated on copyright page, in first-issue dust jacket, with back panel listing 16 Bobbs-Merrill books. Perinn A3a. Vinson, 1139. Interior fine; light soiling to original cloth with some wear to extremities and some creasing to spine. Expert restoration to extremely scarce first-issue dust jacket with toning to spine, less often than usually found. An extremely good copy, quite scarce inscribed.


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john m ay na rd k ey nes The Most Influential Economic Treatise Of The 20th Century, First Edition In The Scarce Original Dust Jacket 21. KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. London, 1936. Octavo, original blue-green cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $14,000.

“I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionise… the way the world thinks about economic problems.” —Keynes to George Bernard Shaw

First edition of Keynes’ last major work, considered the most influential economic treatise of the 20th century, rarely found in the original dust jacket. Keynes’ General Theory ranks with Smith’s Wealth of Nations as an intellectual event and with Malthus’ Essay on Population as a guide for public policy. “The world-wide slump after 1929 prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, and new methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle. First in A Treatise on Money, 1930, and later in his General Theory, he subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate” (PMM 423). Book fine; slight edge-wear to spine ends, usual toning to spine of rarely found near-fine dust jacket, rear panel with tiny ink mark. An exceptional copy, most scarce in this condition.


benja min gr a h a m a nd dav id l . dodd “Many Shall Be Restored That Are Now Fallen And Many Shall Fall That Are Now In Honor”: First Edition Of Graham And Dodd’s Seminal Security Analysis, 1934 22. GRAHAM, Benjamin and DODD, David L. Security Analysis. Principles and Technique. New York, 1934. Octavo, original red cloth, custom clamshell box. $29,000.

“I studied from Security Analysis

Extremely rare first edition, first printing, of Graham’s seminal work, considered the Bible of modern financial analysis.

I had the extraordinary good

while I was at Columbia… when luck to have Ben Graham and

Few published works of the 20th century have exerted the influence or had as devoted a following as Security Analysis. Prior to its publication, investors often Dave Dodd as teachers. Together, relied on intuition or the character of a business owner to make their decisions. Writing in the wake of the catastrophic stock market crash, Graham and Dodd the book and the men changed designed “value-oriented investment,” a disciplined, realistic approach to my life.” —Warren Buffet constructing a solid financial portfolio. Popular when it was published, it continues to shape the strategies and the training of financiers. Copies of the first edition are known to appear both in black cloth binding, with “Whittlesey House—McGraw Hill” in gilt at the foot of the spine, and in red cloth binding, with “McGraw-Hill Book Company” in gilt at the foot of the spine, as with the present copy. No priority of issue has been established; because the book is of exceeding rarity, either binding is equally desirable. Stated “First Edition” on title page, with no mention of printing on copyright page. Without exceptionally rare dust jacket. Bookplate. A fine copy.

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“Socrates Was The First To Call Philosophy Down From The Heavens” (Cicero): First Edition In English Of Xenophon’s Memorable Things Of Socrates, 1712, Of Key Influence On The Founding Fathers 23. (SOCRATES) XENOPHON. The Memorable Things of Socrates, written by Xenophon, in Five Books. London, 1712. Small octavo (5 by 8 inches), contemporary full paneled speckled brown calf rebacked. $10,000. First edition in English of Xenophon’s “extensive and valuable” Memorabilia of Socrates—the first and only accessible route to Socrates prior to later 18th-century translations of Plato—a work of seminal impact on philosophy and America’s Founding Fathers. From the celebrated library of the Earls of Macclesfield. “The most original, influential and controversial figure in the history of Greek thought… Socrates was the ‘hinge’ or the orientation point, for most subsequent thinkers” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy VIII: 480). To Cicero, “Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens” (Tusculan Disputations V:4, 10). This scarce first edition in English of Xenophon’s Memorabilia (circa 371 B.C.), with its highly regarded translation by Edward Bysshe, would be the first and only accessible route to Socrates prior to later 18th-century translations of Plato. Xenophon, an admirer of Socrates, was away on a military expedition when, in 399 B.C., Socrates died by drinking hemlock after being condemned to death. Written on his return, Xenophon’s “extensive and valuable Memorabilia” is a work of great consequence to post-Socratic philosophers, as well as America’s Founding Fathers, in particular Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Both were “enamored of Socrates, the great philosopher and critic of Athenian democracy” and each spoke highly of Xenophon’s Memorabilia—Jefferson in correspondence and Franklin in his Autobiography (Richard, Greeks “I procur’d Xenophon’s Memorable and Romans, 80). Xenophon’s eloquent defense of Socrates in the Memorabilia is enhanced by detailed records of “many conversations in which Socrates’ views or methods were displayed… Xenophon does not quote in so many words the Socratic paradox ‘no one errs voluntarily,’ but he does state that Socrates did not distinguish knowledge from self-control and identified justice and all other virtues with knowledge… Xenophon occasionally reproduces a Socratic elenchus, or interrogation demonstrating the interlocutor’s ignorance, and comments that Socrates used this method to stimulate moral improvement in his pupils by inducing them to acquire knowledge… He tells us that Socrates regarded agreement in discussion as the best guarantee against error” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy VIII:354-55). Jefferson, who owned a later translation of the Memorabilia, preferred Xenophon’s view of Socrates over Plato’s, writing: “of Socrates we have nothing genuine but in the Memorabilia of Xenophon” (Sowerby 1307). Armorial bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield, North Library at Shirburn Castle: printed date of 1860, pressmark in ink. Small early inked notation to front free endpaper. Interior with a few signatures professionally washed, tiny paper flaw to initial blank; minor expert restoration to scarce and attractive contemporary paneled calf boards. An extremely good copy.

Things of Socrates… I was charm’d

with it, adopted it, dropt my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter… I took a delight in it, practis’d it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions… This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me.” —Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography


pl ato “The Oldest Extant Document Of Greek Philosophy”: First English Translations Of Plato’s Apology And Phaedo, 1675 24. PLATO. Plato His Apology of Socrates and Phaedo or Dialogue Concerning the Immortality of Mans Soul. London, 1675. Small octavo, period-style full black morocco gilt. $18,500. First edition in English of Plato’s defense of Socrates and his record of Socrates’ prison-cell discourse on the immortality of the soul, with engraved frontispiece of Socrates taking the cup. Considered the best introduction to Western philosophy. Handsomely bound in period-style morocco-gilt. “That Plato should be the first of all the ancient philosophers to be translated and broadcast by the printing press was inevitable… The germs of all ideas can be found in Plato… By 15th-century standards, Plato was a best-seller” (PMM 27). This is the first appearance in English of both Plato’s Apology of Socrates and his Phaedo, translated “The best from the original Greek by Walter Charleton. The Apology, the oldest extant document of Greek philosophy, is “in the widest sense an example of forensic oratory” (Dunkle) and is “still about the introduction to best introduction to Western philosophy that there is” (Ross, Commentary). In Phaedo, Plato records Socrates’ suggestion that the cognitive soul may enter the world intact and that the life Western philosophy principle of the soul cannot wear out. The present first edition of two of Plato’s authentic dialogues is preceded only by the pseudo-Platonic Axiochus translated by Spenser (printed in 1592 and that there is.” known by a unique copy only) and a selection of Plato’s dialogues printed for school use in 1673. This is the first English translation ever printed of authentic dialogues of Plato (Jayne, 139). Titles —Kelley L. Ross printed in red and black. With engraved frontispiece depicting Socrates accepting his cup of hemlock. Wing P2405. Harris, 115. Brueggemann, 150. Moss II:448. Early owner signatures and annotations to verso of frontispiece, early owner signature to title page. Text professionally cleaned. Frontispiece rehinged. Title page remargined along lower edge, affecting border only. A very handsomely bound copy.


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thom a s robert m a lthus “One Of The Founders Of Modern Economics”: Important First Expanded Edition Of Malthus On Population, 1803 25. MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions. London, 1803. Quarto, period-style three-quarter polished brown calf gilt. $12,500.

“It was Malthus’ doctrine of population, extended to

Second and greatly expanded edition, the first to carry Malthus’ name, of one of the landmark works in economics—four times larger than the first edition and extremely important.

This 1803 edition, the first with Malthus’ name, was four times larger than the first: “practically a new book” (Osler 1297). “Malthus was one of the founders of modern plants, that suggested to economics. His Essay was originally the product of a discussion on the perfectibility of society with his father, [who] urged him to publish. Thus the first edition (published anonymously) was essentially a fighting tract, but later editions were considerably Darwin the struggle for altered and grew bulkier as Malthus defended his views against a host of critics… The existence and the survival Essay was highly influential in the progress of thought in early 19th-century Europe [and] his influence on social policy was considerable… Both Darwin and Wallace of the fittest as the source of clearly acknowledged Malthus as a source of the idea of ‘the struggle for existence’” (PMM 251). “In 1803 Malthus published under his own name the stout quarto that evolution.” —Bertrand Russell embodies his mature views of his subject. The author confesses in his preface that he had taken too gloomy a view of human nature in his first essay… The achievement of Malthus was the exposition of the theory of population; and his name has been associated so closely with this theory that, like Darwin’s, it has added a new adjective to the language of civilized peoples” (Palgrave II:670-1). The first edition was published in 1798. Garrison & Morton 1693. Kress B4701. Interior generally fresh with light scattered foxing, front joint a bit tender. An about-fine copy, handsomely bound.

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thom a s hobbes “A Powerful Influence On The Framers Of The Constitution”: First Edition Of Hobbes’ Landmark Leviathan, 1651 26. HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. London, 1651. Folio, contemporary full brown speckled calf sympathetically rebacked. $32,000. First edition, first issue, of one of the most controversial and important tracts ever written in political philosophy and a major influence on the framers of the Constitution.

“Hobbes’ great accomplishment in the Leviathan was to make

“This book produced a fermentation in English thought not surpassed until the government into an object of advent of Darwinism. Its importance may be gauged by the long list of assailants it aroused. It was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum 7 May 1703, though rational analysis rather than a all Hobbes’s works had previously been condemned in toto, and it still remains a model of vigorous exposition, unsurpassed in the language” (Pforzheimer 491). veiled and divine institution Leviathan was also among the “Pernicious Books and Damnable Doctrines” proscribed by the University of Oxford and ordered to be burnt. Hobbes above and beyond examination.” concluded that an individual should, unless his life is threatened, submit to the —The Western Intellectual Tradition State, because any government is better than anarchy. Later philosophical emphasis on the rights of the individual led to a decline in Hobbes’ influence, but the growth of utilitarianism led to his reassessment as “the most original political philosopher of his time” (PMM 138). “Hobbes had a fundamentally pessimistic view of human nature… [which] had a powerful influence on the framers of the [American] Constitution… When John Adams wrote that ‘he who would found a state, and make proper laws for the government of it, must presume that all men are bad by nature,’ he was expressing an idea that was derived at once from Hobbes” (Lutz & Warden, 38). Wing 2246. Macdonald & Hargreaves 42. Owner signature to letterpress title page. A few instances of ink marginalia and underlining in an old hand. Text generally fresh, a few leaves embrowned, marginal chip to leaf Zz expertly repaired. Contemporary boards with expert restoration. A very good copy of this scarce and important edition.


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ch aucer “O Venerable Chaucer Principall Poet And Peare”: Extremely Rare 1550 Thynne Edition Of Chaucer 27. CHAUCER. The Workes… Newly Printed… London, circa 1550. Tall quarto (measures 8 by 12 inches), period-style full brown paneled calf gilt. $45,000.

“The first great figure of modern English literature, the

Rare 16th-century edition of the works of the “Father of English Literature.” The fourth collected edition, edited by William Thynne. Beautifully bound.

The immortal opening lines of Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales have few equals in all of literature. “He was a great narrative artist, incomparably first great humorist of modern the greatest of an age that loved story-telling” (Sir Walter Raleigh). This “was published jointly by four booksellers: William Bonham, Richard Kele [as here], Europe and the first great Thomas Petyt, and Robert Toy. It is not now possible to ascertain whether or they shared equally in the edition, but it is probable that they did, if one writer in whom the dramatic not may judge by the copies which have survived, for we have traced not less than six nor more than nine copies of any state. Various dates from 1545 to 1555 spirit, so long vanished and have been suggested for this edition and it has even been said to antedate the seemingly extinct, reappears.” 1542 edition. From the state of the blocks, however, it appears to have been printed about 1550… Roughly this is a reprint of the 1542 edition but here the —Dictionary of National Biography Plowman’s Tale which first appeared in that edition is inserted before, instead of after, the Parson’s Tale” (Pforzheimer 174-75).. Without leaf 354 at rear of volume (which concludes the “Balade of the Vyllage without Payntyng”) and the final blank leaf only. STC 5072. Hammond, 118n. Annotated in near-contemporary hands on final text leaf and the title page, which includes six lines of verse beginning “O venerable Chaucer principall poet and peare.” Light occasional early marginalia. Interior generally fresh with extensive expert archival paper repair, mild occasional marginal dampstaining. Very handsomely bound.

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“It Came To Exert A Greater Influence Upon The Consciousness Of Early Modern England And New England Than Any Book Aside From The English Bible And The Book Of Common Prayer”


28. FOX, John. Actes and Monuments… London, 1610. Two volumes bound in one. Large, very thick folio (12 by 17 inches), contemporary full brown blindstamped calf rebacked in morocco, metal furniture and clasps with renewed leather on clasps. $20,000. 17th-century edition (and sixth overall) of this remarkably influential work, with two elaborate engraved vignette title pages and 150 in-text woodblocks depicting scenes of martyrdom. “After the Bible itself, no work so profoundly influenced early Protestant sentiment in England as the Book of Martyrs” (Henry Craik). “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs was for more than two centuries one of the most widely read books in England. Appearing when the memory of the treatment of Protestants in Mary Tudor’s reign was fresh in the minds of its readers, it built up an image of the persecuting papist, which not only resulted in the fierce hatred of the Inquisition, and hence Spain, in Elizabethan times, but has strongly colored English thinking on Roman Catholicism to this day… The lively style of the book, not to mention the gruesome illustrations… was thus given an opportunity to influence—and prejudice—the minds of people in all the classes of society” (PMM). First published in English in 1563, it became an immediate best-seller. Without the folding plates of Windsor Castle and of the early persecutions of the primitive church and the portrait of Foxe, all of which are often not present and which may have been sold separately (see STC11227.3) and the final leaf of the index (which is supplied in neat pen facsimile). See STC 11227. Armorial bookplate. Early owner signature (“James Hollmann, his book 1658”). Scattered mild soiling and dampstaining, last leaf of index and a corner of the previous leaf supplied in manuscript, title page backed, a few minor paper repairs. A large and impressive volume.

“For a century at least it was practically required reading in every Englishspeaking Puritan household, often the only book owned except the Bible.” —Kunitz & Haycraft


john ja mes audubon “A Story Without Equal In The Whole History Of Publishing”: Rare First Octavo Edition Of Audubon’s Birds Of America, With 500 Superb Hand-Colored Plates 29. AUDUBON, John James. The Birds of America. New York and Philadelphia, 1840-44. Seven volumes. Royal octavo, period-style full brown morocco gilt. $95,000. First octavo edition, containing 500 superb hand-colored plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen. One of only 1200 copies. An exceptional set of this American classic, beautifully bound. “The Birds of America exemplifies man’s ability to accomplish an almost impossible “The most splendid book ever task through sacrifice and persistence. Audubon set out to paint and publish an example of every bird on the North American continent… He was the first artistproduced in relation to naturalist to illustrate American birds, life-size, in natural poses; the backgrounds, or habitats, are more natural looking than those of his predecessors.” (Handbook America, and certainly one of of Audubon Prints, 17-18). “Audubon insisted on drawing from life, never from stuffed specimens, and was much in advance of his time in portraying the birds (in the finest ornithological works many cases unrecorded species) in their natural surroundings… The courage and ever printed… It is a story faith of the Audubon family is breathtaking… This immense undertaking, this unparalleled achievement, was not the production of a great and long-established without equal in the whole publishing house, nor was it backed by a wealthy institution. It was the work of a man of relentless energy, with no private fortune… It is a story without equal in the history of publishing.” whole history of publishing” (Great Books and Book Collectors, 210-13). The royal octavo edition, which Audubon referred to as the “petit edition,” contained new —Great Books and Book Collectors species of birds and plants not included in the folio edition (published between 1827 and 1838), with the birds grouped in an orderly scientific manner. Grolier 45. Ayer/Zimmer, 22. Bennett, 5. McGill/Wood, 208. Nissen IVB 51. Sabin 2364. Owner signatures of Wilbraham, Earl Egerton, 43d Light Infantry, Montreal, listed as a new subscriber in Volume VI. Bookplates of Tatton Park, his neoclassical estate in Cheshire. Plates generally vivid and fine, occasional very faint foxing. Beautifully bound. A fine set.


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m a rk t wa in “All Modern Literature Comes From One Book By Mark Twain. It’s The Best Book We’ve Had”: First Issue Of Huckleberry Finn, A Beautiful Copy 30. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. Octavo, original green pictorial cloth, custom clamshell box. $21,000.

“He is the master of the style that escapes the fixity

First edition, first issue, of “the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” (Legacies of Genius, 47), with 174 illustrations by Edward Kemble. A fresh, beautiful copy.

Written over an eight-year period, Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn endured critical attacks from the moment of publication, standing accused of “blood-curdling immorality, coarseness and profanity. The book nevertheless emerged as one of sounds in our ears with the humor,” the defining novels of American literature, prompting Hemingway to declare: “All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It’s the best book we’ve had. All immediacy of the heard American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since.” This copy has all of the commonly identified first-issue points (the printer assembled voice, the very voice of copies haphazardly; bibliographers do not yet agree as to the priority of many points). Debate continues over the priority of other points of issue and state. This copy contains unpretentious truth.” the following points of bibliographical interest: frontispiece portrait, bearing the —Lionel Trilling Heliotype Printing Co. imprint, has no cloth table cover under the bust; copyright page dated 1884; page 143 with “l” missing from “Col” and broken “b” in “body” on line seven; page 155 with the final “5” in a slightly larger font; page 161, no signature mark “11”; page 283-84 is a cancel (Kemble’s illustration with straight pant-fly) as described by Johnson (page 48) and MacDonnell (pages 32-33). BAL 3415. Johnson, 43-50. MacDonnell, 29-35. McBride, 93. Grolier American 87. Owner signature; armorial bookplate. Archival tape reinforcement to gutter of frontispiece portrait. Light scattered foxing to interior; gilt pictorial cloth fine. A fine copy.

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m a rk t wa in “One Of The Most Durable Works In American Literature”: Rare First Edition, First State Of Tom Sawyer 31. TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, 1876. Octavo, original blue cloth, custom watered silk slipcase. $38,000. First American edition, first state, of a book universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of American literature, Twain’s irrepressible and unforgettable “true boy’s book.”

“Tom Sawyer gave Mark Twain the character of Huck

“The first novel Mark Twain wrote without a co-author, Tom Sawyer is also his most Finn, and Huck gave him clearly autobiographical novel… Enlivened by extraordinary and melodramatic events, it is otherwise a realistic depiction of the experiences, people and places that the style that revolutionized Mark Twain knew as a child.” Originally published without illustrations in England, “Tom Sawyer arrived at a momentous time in American history,” Custer had recently American fiction” lost the battle at Little Big Horn and America was celebrating its first centennial. —LeMaster & Wilson “Publication of Tom Sawyer was little noticed… The book has, however, proved to be one of the most durable works in American literature. By the time of Twain’s death, it was his top-selling book. It has been in print continuously since 1876, and has outsold all other Mark Twain works” (Rasmussen, 459). First printing, first state (with “THE” on half title in 10-point rather than 14-point type), peach endpapers, printed on wove paper, with triple flyleaves of laid paper and preliminary matter paginated [I]-XVI. BAL 3369. Johnson, 27-30. MacDonnell, 39-40. MacBride, 40. Light soiling to text; a few stray ink marks to front endpapers; some staining to last leaves. Spine and extremities lightly rubbed and worn, some soiling; front panel quite fresh and gilt bright. Minor expert repair to inner paper hinges. A very good copy of a rare and important first edition.

a rthur r ack h a m /j . m . ba rrie “His Acknowledged Masterpiece”: The Highly Prized Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens, Illustrated And Signed By Arthur Rackham 32. (RACKHAM, Arthur) BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London, 1906. Quarto, original full pictorial vellum gilt, new silk ties; custom slipcase. $15,000. Signed limited first separate edition, number 303 of only 500 copies signed by Rackham, with 50 mounted color illustrations. Peter Pan wasn’t always the boy from Never Land who lost his shadow and fought Captain Hook. The character’s first name “came from Peter Llewelyn Davies, who when still a baby became the subject of stories told by Barrie to [Peter’s older brothers]. According to these stories Peter, like all babies, had once been a bird and could still fly out of his nursery window and back to Kensington Gardens, because his mother had forgotten to weigh him at birth. From these stories came the ‘Peter Pan’ chapters in The Little White Bird [published 1902], afterwards reissued with Arthur Rackham illustrations as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens” (Carpenter, 177). “The 50 color plates were unanimously praised by all who saw them. One critic wrote: ‘Mr. Rackham seems to have dropped out of some cloud in Mr. Barrie’s fairyland, sent by special providence to make pictures in tune with his whimsical genius’” (Dalby, 76-77). The book—with which the “gift book” genre originated (Eyre, 41)—established Rackham’s worldwide reputation and remains “his acknowledged masterpiece… [Barrie praised] Rackham’s rendering of the fairy world… but the book has much more to offer. The glimpses he provides of stylized London reality effectively set off the fairy life that exists in unsuspected conjunction with it, and he captures the loveliness of the Gardens themselves with masterly skill” (Ray). “A much-sought-after volume” (Quayle, Early Children’s Books, 87). Mounted plates bound together at the end of the text rather than throughout as suggested by plate list, as often. Latimore & Haskell, 27. Pencil owner inscription to rear free endpaper. A beautiful copy in fine condition.

“His pictures, which seemed to me then to be the very music made visible, plunged me a few fathoms deeper into my delight.” —C.S. Lewis

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“In A Hole In The Ground There Lived A Hobbit”: First Edition Of Tolkien’s Classic Fantasy 33. TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. London, 1937. Octavo, original light green cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $35,000. First edition, first printing, in original unrestored dust jacket, of the fantasy classic—“among the very highest achievements of children’s authors during the 20th century” (Carpenter & Pritchard, 530)—one of only 1500 copies printed. Not unlike its titular protagonist—the “little fellow” Bilbo Baggins, quiet and unremarkable, who nonetheless becomes the hero of an epic adventure—The Hobbit, now widely hailed as a landmark work not only of children’s literature but also of world fantasy, had a humble origin. “All I can remember about the start of The Hobbit,” Tolkien would later recall in a letter to his friend W.H. Auden, “is sitting correcting School Certificate papers in the everlasting weariness of that annual task forced on impecunious academics with children. On a blank leaf I scrawled: ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.’ I did not and do not know why. I did nothing about it, for a long time… but it became The Hobbit in the early 1930s.” Much more than a “fine, robustly plotted adventure story” (Fantasy and Horror 5-288), The Hobbit endures as “the outstanding British work of fantasy for children to appear between the two World Wars” (Carpenter & Prichard, 254). It “Among the very highest served as readers’ introduction to Middle-Earth, the elaborately textured and completely convincing imaginary world that Tolkien had been creating as a private achievements of exercise since as early as 1918. “Professor Tolkien’s epic of Middle Earth… [is considered] one of [the 20th] century’s lasting contributions to that borderland of children’s authors during literature between youth and age. There are few such books—Gulliver’s Travels, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Don Quixote, Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the 20th century.” the Willows—what else?… [Tolkien’s tales of Middle-Earth are] destined to become —Carpenter & Pritchard this century’s contribution to that select list of books which continue through the ages to be read by children and adults with almost equal pleasure” (Eyre, 67, 134-5). Published on September 21, 1937 in a first printing of only 1500 copies, The Hobbit had completely sold out by December 15. All of the book’s illustrations and decorations are by Tolkien: ten black-and-white pen drawings; two maps printed in red and black (appearing as the front and back endpapers); decorations to the cloth binding (mountains, moon, sun and dragon); and the dramatic four-color dust jacket illustration. Publisher’s correction by hand to rear flap of dust jacket. Hammond & Anderson A3a. Currey 385. Owner ink signature. Book slightly bowed, with minor inkstains and foxing affecting fore-edge only. Unrestored dust jacket mildly tanned, as often, and with edge-wear, including a few chips and closed tears. A very good copy of this exceptionally rare landmark fantasy, very rare in dust jacket.


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henrici de br acton “The Crown And Flower Of English Medieval Jurisprudence”: Fine First Edition Of Bracton’s De Legibus, 1569 34. BRACTON, Henrici de. De Legibus & consuetudinibus Angliae. London, 1569. Small folio, early full tan calf rebacked with original spine laid down. $22,000.

“He arrived at a formulation of principles which have determined the whole

Very rare first edition of the book which has been called “the classic exposition of the common law” (D.M. Stenton), “a model for legal literature until the present day” (P.M. Barnes), and “the crown and flower of English medieval jurisprudence” (Pollock & Maitland I: 206).

Composed between 1250 and 1256, De Legibus was cited in the courts well into the development of English law.” 18th century, and remains an established legal literary prototype. “Bracton based his book on the cases decided by the great judges of the first half of the century… as well —Printing & the Mind of Man as on his own twenty-year experience as ‘justice itinerant’… He combined a systematic inquiry into the legal maxims of general validity with their practical application in the common law courts. Thus he arrived at a formulation of principles which have determined the whole development of English law, of which the use of precedents is perhaps the most characteristic. His method was adopted and carried on by Littleton and Coke” (PMM 89). “Bracton’s position in the history of English law is unique. The treatise De Legibus is the first attempt to treat the whole extent of the law in a manner at once systematic and practical… Through Coke, who had a high respect for Bracton, and frequently cited him, both in his judgments and in his ‘Commentary’ on Littleton, his influence has been effective in molding the existing common law of England” (DNB). “The largest and most important institutional work that our law knew until Coke’s Institutes” (NYU, 35). Beale T323. STC 3475. Discreet notation to title page; early marginalia to some leaves. Signature excised from upper corner of title page, which has been restored (no loss of text), marginal restoration to F7, occasional very faint dampstaining; early binding near-fine. An exceptional copy of this medieval classic of English law.


w illi a m bl ackstone “At Once Acclaimed A Classic”: Scarce First Edition Of Blackstone’s Commentaries 35. BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford, 1765-69. Four volumes. Quarto, contemporary blind-stamped brown calf rebacked. $23,000. Rare first edition of Blackstone’s landmark Commentaries, perhaps the single most important legal work in Anglo-American history.

“Blackstone did for the

English what the imperial One of the greatest achievements in legal history, Blackstone’s Commentaries of the Laws of England was instrumental to the definition of the English constitution and important publication of Roman law in establishing common law as the basis of the American legal system. “The Commentaries are not only a statement of the law of Blackstone’s day, but the best history of English law did for the people of Rome.” as a whole which had yet appeared… the skillful manner in which Blackstone uses his authorities new and old, and the analogy of other systems of law, to illustrate the evolution —Printing & the Mind of Man of the law of his day, had a vast influence, both in England and America” (NYU, 34). The Commentaries helped clarify English law by introducing to the public its formative traditions. “Until the Commentaries, the ordinary Englishman had viewed the law as a vast, unintelligible and unfriendly machine… Blackstone’s great achievement was to popularize the law and the traditions which had influenced its formation… He did for the English what the imperial publication of Roman law did for the people of Rome” (PMM 212). With four leaf Supplement to the First Edition in Volume I, as called for. With the engraved Table of Consanguinity and the Table of Descents (folding plate) in Volume II. Armorial bookplates of two Lords Willoughby de Broke. Some light, inoffensive foxing; occasional faint dampstaining to upper edges of Volume III without affecting text. Volume II with expert repair to title page, Table of Consanguinity bound in upside down. Generally a fine set in contemporary calf.

john milton “One Of The Greatest, Most Noble And Sublime Poems Which Either This Age Or Nation Has Produced”: First Edition Of Milton’s Paradise Lost 36. MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books. London, 1668. Small quarto, early 20th-century full red morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $35,000. First edition of Milton’s poetic masterpiece, his dramatic vision of Satan’s expulsion from Heaven and the temptation of Adam and Eve; this copy with the fourth title page, the first issue to include the seven preliminary leaves (with the very scarce “Printer to the Reader” address). Handsomely bound by Riviere & Son. John Dryden referred to Paradise Lost as “one of the greatest, most noble and sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.” Although the tremendously difficult circumstances under which Milton produced the work are legendary—he had been blinded by long years of service as secretary under Cromwell and was in political disfavor after the restoration of Charles II—the troubled printing history of the work is less well known. The publisher Samuel Simmons reluctantly agreed to print a small first edition of 1300 copies, as he was assuming a heavy risk in sponsoring an epic poem, for which no precedent in English publishing had been established. As payment for the first edition, Milton received a total of ten pounds. The many issues of the first edition are distinguishable only by variations in the title page: “the sheets of the various were evidently mixed and made up indiscriminately by the binder, and therefore copies “Paradise Lost is ‘alone issues of apparently the same issue will be found to differ from each other in that some will have in its kind of greatness’… more of the errors corrected than others” (Wither to Prior, 188). This copy with the title page described in Wither to Prior (602) as the fourth title page (with Milton’s name spelled out, S. Certainly nothing can Simmons appearing as printer for the first time and all other points). “With the issuance of copies under what is designated as the fourth title page, as also in the subsequent issues, exceed the majesty and several pages of preliminary matter were added… containing ‘The Printer to the Reader,’ ‘The Argument,’ ‘The Verse’ and the ‘Errata’” (Wither to Prior 602). The very scarce address sublimity of Milton’s “The Printer to the Reader” is here in the five-line rather than the earlier three-line state. Without initial blank. Wing M2139. Lowndes, 1557. See Pforzheimer 716, 717. Bookplate of great religious epic.” 19th-century railroad executive Samuel F. Barger. Occasional minor paper restoration to text; expert restoration to title page, including supplying the “t” of “Lost” and a bit of the border in —Kunitz & Haycraft pen. Small burn mark, barely affecting text, on one leaf (Ff3). A very handsome copy.


m a ry wollstonecr a f t shelley One Of The Most Important And Desirable Works In English Literature: Exceedingly Rare First Edition Of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 37. SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus. London, 1818. Three volumes. 12mo, modern full brown calf, custom clamshell box. $168,000. Exceedingly rare first edition of Mary Shelley’s horror masterpiece, handsomely bound. One stormy June evening in 1816, while the 19-year-old Mary Shelley was in Geneva with her husband Percy, her step-sister Claire Clairmont, Claire’s lover Lord Byron and Byron’s physician John Polidori, the group’s discussion turned to the supernatural. Byron proposed that all members of the party write a romance or tale dealing with the subject. In the days that followed, Polidori and Byron both produced vampire stories (The Vampyre and an unfinished narrative, respectively), Claire and Percy Shelley wrote nothing, and Mary Shelley conceived the novel “A mystical morality tale Frankenstein. Frankenstein was Mary Shelley’s first published work, “a mystical morality tale about what happens when man dares to transgress the limits of knowledge… (it) is Mary about what happens when Shelley’s conscious or unconscious parable of the Romantic sensibility; Frankenstein and his creation represent the yin and yang of a paradoxical whole, encompassing beauty and horror, man dares to transgress flowering imagination and social consciousness balanced off by a great capacity for selfthe limits of knowledge.” destruction, a capacity that can be seen in the lives of almost all the Romantics, from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Lord Byron” (Stephen King). It is no wonder that Frankenstein has become —Stephen King “the most famous English horror novel… a defining model of the Gothic mode of fiction, and… the first genuine science fiction novel, the first significant rendering of the relations between mankind and science through an image of mankind’s dual nature appropriate to an age of science” (Clute & Nicholls, 1099). This first edition, published anonymously, includes Percy Shelley’s Preface, written as the author. Mary Shelley was not to add her own introduction until the 1831 third edition. Without half titles in Volumes I and III, often absent. Bound with one half title in Volume II and advertisements in Volumes II and III, rarely found. Wise, 8. Wolff 6280. Only most minor scattered foxing to text. A beautiful copy in fine condition of an extraordinarily rare and desirable first edition.


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ch a rles stedm a n “The Standard Work on the Subject”: Stedman’s History Of The American War, With 15 Large Maps (11 Folding) Of “Great Interest And Value” 38. STEDMAN, Charles. History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. London, 1794. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary full brown tree calf gilt. $23,000. First edition, wide-margined copy, of Stedman’s massive contemporary two-volume History of the American Revolution, containing 15 military maps and plans (11 folding, the largest nearly 20 by 30 inches), handsomely bound in contemporary calf. Philadelphia-born military historian Charles Stedman was a Loyalist who served “with the British at Lexington and Bunker Hill, later became commissary to the army of Sir William Howe, and was with Cornwallis in the South” (New International Encyclopedia 21:485). Taken prisoner by American forces, he was sentenced to be hanged as a rebel but escaped. At war’s end Stedman moved to England where he authored this authoritative two-volume History. As “the standard work on the subject,” Stedman’s History especially benefits from eyewitness accounts of many campaigns (DNB). In addition, “the “The best contemporary military maps and surveys in the History are of great interest and value” (Allibone, 2231). Here Stedman argues that Britain’s defeat was largely due to the failure of its politicians and ministers, and “the military genius of Britain was unimpaired; she rose with elastic force under every account of the blow.” Ultimately, he concludes that the American Revolution “came as a surprise to the world… Revolution from the no invading army, in the present enlightened period, can be successful, in a country where the people are tolerably united” (449). These two volumes feature folding strategic plans of the British side.” Battle of Bunker Hill, attacks on Forts Clinton and Montgomery, and the Sieges of Charleston, Savannah and Yorktown, along with maps of Long Island and the Catawba River. Bound —Joseph Sabin without half titles. Howes S914. Sabin 91057. Lowndes, 2504. Small shelf labels. Bookplates of Theodore Winthrop Stedman with the family motto of “cuncta mea mecum” (My all is with me). Bookseller tickets. Interiors generally fresh with light scattered foxing, small expert repairs to several folding maps and a few leaves; joints and extremities with a few expert repairs or restoration. A very handsome near-fine copy of this scarce contemporary history of the American Revolution.


george wa shington “The Only Comprehensive Account By A Great Statesman Of The Full Founding Of The United States”: First Edition In Contemporary Tree Calf Of Marshall’s Life Of Washington, With Scarce Atlas Volume Of The Military Campaigns 39. (WASHINGTON, George) MARSHALL, John. The Life of George Washington. Philadelphia, 1804-07. Six volumes. Thick octavo, contemporary full tree calf rebacked with original spines laid down. Quarto atlas volume, original marbled boards rebacked and recornered, original paper cover label. $16,500. First edition of Marshall’s magisterial biography of Washington, with engraved frontispiece portrait and the companion atlas of ten strategic maps (eight double-page) depicting Washington’s major Revolutionary War campaigns. In contemporary tree calf, with scarce atlas volume in original boards. Shortly after Marshall became Chief Justice, Washington’s nephew Bushrod approached him to write the first President’s official biography. Probably no man was better suited to the task. As a personal friend of Washington, Marshall had announced the President’s death in 1799, offered the eulogy, chaired the committee that arranged the funeral rites, and led the commission to plan a monument in the capital city. When Marshall’s Life of Washington appeared, it quickly gained such authoritative status that Washington scholar Jared Sparks suggested any “If George Washington new biographical undertaking would be “presumptuous” (Sparks, Washington I:12). The founded the country, work “is political history as well as biography… the only comprehensive account by a great statesman of the full founding of the United States—of the founding of an independent people John Marshall defined as well as of its government… There is no other concentrated history of the essentials by such an authority on American institutions” (Robert K. Faulkner). Gilbert Stuart’s famous portrait it... The definitive of Washington, made known to the general public through this engraved frontispiece, was produced by Philadelphia stipple-engraver David Edwin—“for upwards of 30 years, the most account of the first prolific workman in America” (Fielding, 109). This first edition, together with the first English edition of the same years, are “the only complete editions of this indispensable work, the president’s life for over 30 ‘Colonial History’ being omitted in the later American editions” (Sabin). Scarce companion atlas includes a 22-page list of subscribers. Howes M317. Sabin 44788. Shaw & Shoemaker years.” —Jean Edward Smith 6710. Gift inscription dated 1858 to John D. Bertolette, who would be highly complimented repeatedly “for gallant and meritorious services” as Colonel in the Civil War, with his signature on the title pages. He was severely wounded in the battle of Bull Run. Atlas volume from the Arlington Library. Usual scattered foxing and embrowning to interiors of text volumes. Maps expertly cleaned. A very handsome and most desirable set in contemporary calf.

rich a rd h a k lu y t “It Is Difficult To Overrate The Importance And Value Of This Extraordinary Collection Of Voyages”: First Expanded Edition Of Hakluyt’s Monumental Principal Navigations, 1599-1600, The First English Collection Of Voyages And An Essential Catalyst In The Colonization Of America 40. HAKLUYT, Richard. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. London, 1599-1600. Three volumes bound in two. Quarto, early 20th-century full levant olive morocco gilt, full morocco pull-off boxes. $42,000. Greatly expanded second edition of Hakluyt’s expanded collection of voyages, the first and greatest of its kind. The esteemed Hersholt-Greenhill-Borowitz copy, beautifully bound in full morocco by Pratt.

“The heroic tales of the exploits of the great men

“This enormous work… is the most complete collection of voyages and discoveries, by in whom the new era was land as well as by sea, and of the nautical achievements of the Elizabethans” (PMM). A vigorous propagandist and empire-builder, Hakluyt “met many of the great navigators— inaugurated.” —Dictionary Drake, Raleigh, Gilbert, Frobisher and others—corresponded with Ortelius and of National Biography Mercator and collected all the material on voyages he could find” (PMM). By 1600 he was able to fill the three folio volumes of this definitive edition of The Principal Navigations. Voyages and accounts are arranged by both chronology and region, and contain personal reports by explorers, merchants and diplomats. As usual, this copy is the second issue of Volume I, with the cancel title page dated 1599. The account of Essex’s expedition to Cadiz (often absent) is supplied in fine printed facsimile, bound in. This set does not contain the Mercator projection world map, which was only issued with a handful of copies. This copy does, however, contain a fine facsimile, bound in. Text embellished with numerous woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Church 322. Hill 743. The copy of esteemed collectors Jean Hersholt and Harold Greenhill, with their bookplates; this copy was also in the collection of David and Lulu Borowitz. A fine copy, very handsomely bound, with distinguished provenance.

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Staunton’s 1797 Account Of An Embassy To China, Complete With Scarce Elephant Folio Atlas Volume With 44 Finely Engraved Plates


41. (CHINA) STAUNTON, George Leonard. An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. London, 1797. Three volumes altogether. Two volumes quarto plus elephant folio atlas (17-1/2 by 23-1/2 inches), period-style full (quarto volumes) or three quarter (atlas) speckled calf gilt. $27,500.

“A

First edition of this splendidly detailed description of 18th-century China, with engraved frontispiece portraits of the Emperor Tchien Lung and Lord Macartney and 27 additional in-text engravings, together with the Atlas plate volume containing 44 finely engraved folio plates, including several large folding maps and charts—among the remarkable account earliest accurate charts of the interior of China—and lovely picturesque views and cityscapes by William Alexander.

of Chinese manners and

A rich account “of the first British embassy to China, under Lord Macartney. Great Britain was anxious to establish formal diplomatic relations with China and thus opened the way for unimpeded trade relations, but centuries of Chinese reserve and self-sufficiency presented a the 18th century.” —Hill formidable obstacle to the embassy, and the Chinese emperor effectually resisted Lord Macartney’s arguments and gifts. The visit of the British embassy nonetheless resulted in this Collection of Pacific Voyages remarkable account of Chinese manners and customs at the close of the 18th century, which was prepared at government expense… Staunton, a friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke, was a medical doctor who had lived for many years in Grenada. He was the secretary to Lord Macartney in both India and China, and undertook diplomatic missions to Warren Hastings and to Tipu Sahib at Seringapatem” (Hill 1628). “Apart from its Chinese importance, [Staunton’s Account] is of considerable interest owing to the descriptions of the various places en route which were visited, including Madeira, Teneriff, Rio de Janeiro, St. Helena, Tristan d’Acunha, Amsterdam Island, Java, Sumatra, [and] Cochin-China” (Cox I, 344). This important work contains some of the earliest accurate charts of the interior of China and provides many invaluable geographical and cultural observations. The full-page folio engravings, including two of the Great Wall of China, were made after drawings by William Alexander, who accompanied the embassy as junior draughtsman. Hill 1628. Widemargined text volumes generally clean, with some light cleaning to first and last few leaves; atlas volume expertly cleaned. Beautifully bound to period style.

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ten nesee w illi a ms “Something Unprecedented On The Stage”: First Edition Of Streetcar Named Desire, Signed By Williams 42. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York, 1947. Octavo, original pink paper boards, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $20,000.

“Mr. Williams… has not forgotten that human beings are the basic subject of art. Out of poetic imagination and ordinary compassion he has spun a poignant and luminous story.” —Brooks Atkinson, opening night review, New York Times

First edition of Williams’ first Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, signed by him. A beautiful copy. Critically praised as “superb,” “fascinating” and “a terrific adventure,” A Streetcar Named Desire brought Williams his second New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award—and a Pulitzer Prize. Williams himself considered this his best play (Devlin, 50). Elia Kazan directed the original production that opened in New Haven on October 30, 1947 before moving to Broadway on December 3 with a cast starring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy. Among Streetcar’s major achievements was a depiction of the working class that set it apart from standard social commentary or documentary drama. “No one dared approach this new thing without caution. They had just witnessed something unprecedented on the stage, a high-pitched, jagged, alarming—and comical!—drama structure” (Sam Staggs). First issue, printed December 1947. Crandell A5.I.a. Bookseller ticket. Text and signature fresh, book lovely with only very lightest toning to colorful boards, less than usual; lightest edge-wear, usual toning to spine of scarce colorful dust jacket. A highly desirable near-fine signed copy.


m a rk t wa in First Issue Of Following The Equator, 1897, Signed By Twain, “Undoubtedly Mark Twain’s Own Copy As It Was Purchased By The Rosenbachs,” With Typed Letter Of Provenance Signed By John Fleming, “Successor To Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach” 43. TWAIN, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford, 1897. Royal octavo, original navy cloth gilt, custom morocco solander box. $30,000. First edition, first issue, of Twain’s final travel book, boldly signed by him, with a laid-in 1957 letter attesting that this is Twain’s copy, signed by New York rare book dealer John Fleming, successor to Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, who, after Rosenbach’s death in 1952, established the prestigious Fleming Rare Book Company with a collection worth $2 million purchased from the Rosenbach estate. With Fleming’s 1957 typed bill of sale laid in. This exceptionally rare first edition, signed by Twain, is accompanied by an authoritative “A miracle of resilience letter of provenance from John F. Fleming, trusted long-time associate and the successor to renowned bibliophile Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, whose “name was synonymous with great and humor set out books… To Dr. Rosenbach, more than to any other person, the rare book libraries of the United States owe, if not always their books, the philosophical concept of the importance of against the greater rare books” (Wolf, 13). This laid-in letter, in typescript on Fleming’s letterhead and signed by darkness of the last him, reads: “Dear Mr. Brewster: I have sent to you by book post insured today the copy of Clemens’ Following the Equator. This is undoubtedly Mark Twain’s own copy as it was years.” —Philip D. Beidler purchased by the Rosenbachs from a Mrs. Collier who was either the executor of the estate or purchased it from the executor. As you know, Mark Twain died in 1910, and the books were bought soon after that by the Rosenbachs. You will also notice the old morocco cases which were made about that time and would have been made only for a precious copy of a Mark Twain book. As a matter of fact, the proof of the matter is found in the copy of The Prince and the Pauper which was presented to a Mr. Bartlett in 1881, and as you saw Clemens came in possession of it later and signed his name in the same place on the front cover with the date of January 21, 1909. They are all in the exact same cases and are unquestionably from his library…” Fleming’s mention of Mrs. Collier presumably is in reference to the widow of Robert J. Collier, Twain’s friend and editor of Collier’s magazine—“Mrs. Sally,” as Twain liked to call her (Paine, 244). BAL 3451. Johnson, 65. McBride, 194. Binding mildly rubbed. A nearly fine signed copy with especially significant documents of provenance.


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leo tolstoy Among The Most Important Novels In World Literature: Tolstoy’s Epic War And Peace, 1886 Beautiful First Complete Edition In English 44. TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace. New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. Six volumes. Small octavo, original decorative brown cloth gilt, custom clamshell box. $18,000.

“If life could write, it would write like

First complete edition in English of one of the most important novels in world literature, six volumes in exceptional original cloth-gilt binding.

Seven years in the writing, War and Peace is undeniably the greatest literary work relating to the Napoleonic wars. The juxtaposition of historical, social, and personal themes and the Tolstoy.” —Isaac Babel monumental size and scope of the novel combine to present an accurate and vibrant portrait of the Russian nation. German novelist Thomas Mann noted of War and Peace, “The pure narrative power of his work is unequalled. Seldom did art work so much like nature.” Originally published in 186569, the novel was not translated into English until almost 20 years later. A London edition of War and Peace was also published in 1886, but omits several philosophical passages and the second epilogue; this Gottsberger edition is complete. A third edition, published by Harper and Brothers, also appeared in 1886. No priority is given among these editions. Line 104. Owner signatures in Volumes I through IV. A fine, fresh, unrestored copy, most scarce in such exceptional condition.

her m a n melv ille “No Equal In American Literature”: First American Edition Of Moby-Dick In Original Cloth 45. MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York, 1851. Octavo, original stamped brown cloth recased, custom chemise and full blue morocco clamshell box. $45,000. First American edition, in original cloth, of Melville’s rare classic.

“This miracle of a book

Arguably the greatest single work in American literature, Moby-Dick was initially “a Moby Dick, almost complete practical failure, misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public; and in 1853 the Harper’s fire destroyed the plates of all his books and most of the flawless, I think.” copies remaining in stock (only about 60 copies of Moby-Dick survived the fire)… [Nevertheless,] Melville’s permanent fame must always rest on the great prose epic —Harold Bloom of Moby-Dick, a book that has no equal in American literature for variety and splendor of style and for depth of feeling” (DAB). This American edition contains 35 passages and the Epilogue omitted from the English edition (The Whale, published in October of the same year; the first American edition appeared in December). Complete with six pages of advertisements at rear, covers blind-stamped with heavy rule frame and publisher’s circular device at center, and orange-brown endpapers; this title was issued in a variety of cloth colors and endpapers, no priority given. This copy with double flyleaves at front and triple flyleaves at rear. BAL 13664. Bookseller ticket; contemporary owner signature to title page. Some foxing to interior, as usually found. Light rubbing and soiling to original cloth; expert repairs to joints and spine ends. A very good copy of this landmark novel.


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plin y “An Encyclopedia Of All The Knowledge Of The Ancient World”: First Edition In English Of Pliny’s Monumental Historie Of The World, 1601— Of Primary Importance In The History Of Western Culture 46. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. The Historie of the World: Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland. London, 1601. Two volumes bound in one. Thick folio (9 by 13 inches), period style full calf gilt. $15,000.

“The work is a mine of inestimable value in the information it gives us respecting

First edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, of Pliny’s Natural History—“of exceptional importance in the tradition and diffusion of Western culture”—beautifully printed with engraved emblems on title pages, and engraved initials and borders throughout.

“The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is more than a natural history: it is an encyclopaedia of all the knowledge of the ancient world… It comprises 37 books the science and art of the ancient with mathematics and physics, geography and astronomy, medicine and zoology, anthropology and physiology, philosophy and history, agriculture and mineralogy, world; and it is also a splendid the arts and letters… The Historia soon became a standard book of reference; and abridgements appeared by the third century… One of the earliest monument of human industry.” abstracts books to be printed at Venice, the centre from which so much of classical literature was first dispensed, it was later translated into English by Philemon Holland in —Harry Thurston Peck 1601, and twice reprinted (a notable achievement for so vast a text)… Over and over again it will be found that the source of some ancient piece of knowledge is Pliny” (PMM 5). Most of Holland’s translations were issued in heavy folios such as this, leading Pope to describe the “groaning shelves” bending under the weight of Holland’s works. STC 20029.5. Pforzheimer 496. Brueggemann, 670. Occasional early marginalia. First few leaves remargined, expert repairs to tears on title page, small holes to leaves Bb5-6 of Volume I, affecting letters but not the sense of the text; last five leaves of Index and Errata leaf of Volume II with expert paper repairs, occasionally affecting text. Beautifully bound, an excellent copy of this massive and fascinating classic.

edwa rd gibbon “The Greatest Historical Work Ever Written”: Gibbon’s Landmark Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire 47. GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London, 1777-1788. Six volumes. Quarto, contemporary full diced brown calf boards rebacked in calf gilt. $13,500. First edition of Volumes II through VI and second edition of Volume I (published four months after the first) of one of the greatest classics of Western thought, with three engraved folding maps by Kitchin of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire and of Constantinople. Beautifully bound.

“This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has

“For 22 years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly 1500 years. And so remained one of the thorough were his methods that the laborious investigations of German scholarship, the ageless historical works.” keen criticisms of theological zeal, and the steady researches of (two) centuries have brought to light very few important errors in the results of his labors. But it is not merely —Printing & the Mind of Man the learning of his work, learned as it is, that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition, the boundless range, the infinite variety, and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole… It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, 146-7). All 1000 copies of the first edition of Volume I were sold within two weeks of publication in January 1776. Volume I in this set is the second edition (so stated on title page and with the preface, otherwise the same as that of the first edition, dated June 1, 1776). The second edition of Volume I was set at 1500 copies; half of the press run sold within three days. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Gibbon in Volume I; bound without half titles. Norton 20, 22, 23, 29. Owner signature on title page of Volume I dated 1790. Interiors quite clean. Volume II with foxing to one signature only (3H), paper repairs to leaves 4F1 and 4M4. An exceptionally handsome wide-margined copy.


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ber na rd pic a rt Large Folio Edition In English Of Picart’s Masterpiece, One Of The Monumental Illustrated Works Of The 18th-Century, In Beautiful Contemporary Calf 48. PICART, Bernard. The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World… Written originally in French with a large number of Folio Copper Plates. London, 1733-39. Seven volumes in six. Folio (11-1/2 by 18-1/2 inches), contemporary full mottled calf gilt sympathetically rebacked. $26,000. Mixed first and second edition in English of one of the most spectacular illustrated works of the 18th-century, with 223 engraved copper plates after Picart depicting the religious ceremonies of numerous nations, including Jewish and North American Indian rites. A very handsome and desirable large folio set in contemporary mottled calf bindings. Picart is famed largely for this monumental work, here complete in six large folio volumes. The superb copper-engraved plates, many double-page, illustrate in fine ever attempted, in word and detail scenes of religious ceremonies, views of temples and churches and religious costume. Of particular interest are the engravings and related text describing the image, such a grand sweep of North American Indians and those sections regarding Judaism. “Picart earned a place in the history of Jewish art by his realistic portrayal of Jewish religious rites. human religions.” —The Book These constitute an invaluable record of Dutch Jewry in the early 18th-century” (Encyclopedia Judaica). Also with engraved head- and tailpieces and historiated that Changed Europe initials. Title pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes. Bound with all half titles. First published in Amsterdam, in French, beginning 1723. The first three volumes of the English edition were first published in 1731 by Nicholas Prevost; when Claude Du Bosc took over publication in 1733, he reissued the first three volumes in a slightly larger format consistent with his ambitions for the remaining volumes in the set, which he published for the first time over the next several years. Lewine, 414. Harthan, History of the Illustrated Book, 140. Engraved armorial bookplate. Text and plates generally clean and fine, very minor marginal wormholing to first few leaves of Volume VI, not affecting text. A splendid set of this landmark work, beautifully rebacked and desirable in contemporary calf boards.

“No other work before had


first a meric a n hebrew bible Of Exceptional Rarity: 1814 First Edition Of The First Hebrew Bible Published In America, With Rare Publisher’s Prefatory Leaf 49. HEBREW BIBLE. Biblia Hebraica. Philadelphia, 1814. Two volumes. Octavo, period-style full straight-grain red morocco gilt. $35,000. Very rare first edition of the first Hebrew Bible published in America, of major importance in the field of American Judaica, handsomely bound. This copy with the publisher’s leaf explaining the genesis of this edition—not present in many copies—tipped in after the preface in Volume I.

“In the year 1812, Mr. Horowitz had proposed the publication of an edition of the

“In the year 1812, Mr. [Jonathan] Horowitz had proposed the publication of an edition of the Hebrew Bible, being the first proposal of the kind ever offered in the Hebrew Bible, being the first United States” (from the scarce publisher’s prefatory leaf, present in this copy). Facing competition from several others hoping to publish an edition before his, proposal of the kind ever Horowitz decided early in 1813 to transfer his right to the edition to Philadelphia publisher Thomas Dobson; he sold his type to William Fry. Dobson’s edition, offered in the United States…” printed by Fry and published in 1814, precedes all others. According to Goldman, —from the preface “the JTSA Karp copy alone contains a tipped-in leaf telling of the genesis of the edition; we do not include this leaf in our collation” (Goldman, 4). This copy also contains this scarce tipped-in prefatory leaf. Bound with half title in Volume II. Rosenbach 171. Wright, 123-24. Darlow and Moule 5168a. Shaw & Shoemaker 30857. Wolf & Whiteman, 306. Discreet ink numbering to verso of title pages, faint evidence of stamp removal to last leaf of text and fore-edges. Beautifully bound, most scarce and desirable with publisher’s prefatory leaf.

henry m . sta nley “For 160 Days We Marched Through The Forest”: Deluxe First Edition Of In Darkest Africa, 1890, One Of Only 250 Copies Signed By Stanley 50. STANLEY, Henry M. In Darkest Africa. New York, 1890. Two volumes. Large thick quarto (10 by 12 inches), publisher’s three-quarter dark brown morocco. $16,000. Deluxe signed limited first edition, American issue, one of only 250 copies signed by Stanley, of the classic 19th-century account of African exploration. Profusely illustrated with engraved frontispieces, 38 mounted plates on India paper, six additional full-page etchings (each signed by the artist), three color folding maps (two backed in cloth ), a folding table of comparative vocabularies, and numerous mounted, in-text India-prints. Perhaps no adventurer is more closely connected with Africa than Lord Stanley, whose various expeditions did more to reveal the nature of that continent than any modern explorer. His 1887 mission to relieve the besieged governor of Egypt, his last mission to future cannot write the Africa, ended miserably when Stanley arrived only to learn that the governor did not care history of Africa without to be relieved, but instead was angry at the Englishman for interfering in his affairs. This account contains the harrowing details of Stanley’s journey through the nearly impenetrable also mentioning the name Ituri, or Great Congo, Forest, which he traversed not once but three times over the course of his travels. The conditions were brutal; sometimes the expedition could achieve no more than three or four hundred yards an hour. Along the way Stanley compiled important data of Stanley.” —from a on the Pygmies and discovered the Ruwenzori, or “Mountains of the Moon.” The perilous contemporary obituary journey nearly cost Stanley his life, and only a third of the men with whom he set out returned alive. Published in the same year and using the same sheets as the English issue (also limited to 250 copies). Hosken, 189. Interiors fine, expert reinforcement to Volume II front inner hinge. Light wear to morocco extremities, light soiling to vellum boards (as often). Near-fine condition.

“… The historian of the

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Shackleton’s Own Account Of The Fate Of The Endurance, Rare First Edition, First Printing, 1919


51. SHACKLETON, Ernest. South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917. London, 1919. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $9000. First edition, first printing, of Shackleton’s own account of his ill-fated expedition. With folding map at rear, in-text maps and illustrations, color frontispiece and 87 photogravure plates, most after photographs by Frank Hurley, including his image of the Endurance “looming stark and white against the darkness of the Polar night.” Ernest Shackleton embarked in 1914 in the Endurance to make the first crossing of the Antarctic continent-1800 miles from sea to sea. But 1915 turned into an unusually icy year in Antarctica; after drifting trapped in the ice for nine months, the Endurance was crushed in the ice on October 27. “Shackleton now showed his supreme qualities of leadership…with five companions he made a voyage of 800 miles in a 22-foot boat through some of the stormiest seas in the world, crossed the unknown lofty interior of South Georgia, and reached a Norwegian whaling station on the north coast. After three attempts… Shackleton succeeded (30 August 1916) in rescuing the rest of the Endurance party and bringing them to South America” (DNB). Amazingly, all members of the Endurance party survived the ordeal. Featuring Frank Hurley’s photographs of the expedition’s doomed Endurance, including his classic flashlight photograph of the ship taken at 70 degrees below freezing, showing her “inky silhouette… looming stark and white against the darkness of the Polar night… in brilliant relief against the velvet blackness of the sky… transforming her into a vessel from a fairy-land” (Hurley, Argonauts of the South, 159). First printing, with errata slip tipped in. Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Rosove 308.A1. Taurus 105. Spence 1107. Conrad, 210-14, 224. Gift inscription. Interior fine; two-inch closed tear to stub of folding map. Only most minor wear to extremities of original cloth, silver bright. A fine copy.

“For scientific leadership, give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems to be no way out, get on your knees and pray for Shackleton.” —Raymond Priestley


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li v y 1600 First Edition In English Of Livy’s History Of Rome 52. LIVY. The Romane Historie Written by T. Livius of Padua. London, 1600. Thick folio, contemporary full paneled brown calf rebacked. $12,000. First edition in English of Livy’s monumental history of Rome, translated by Philemon Holland, scarce in contemporary paneled calf. Titus Livius commenced his great history between 27 and 25 B.C., completing it only shortly before his death in A.D. 17. His genius lay in lively storytelling rather than critical history; his aim was to rekindle his fellow Romans’ patriotic spirit by recounting their ancestors’ heroic deeds. “Livy’s heroes were to revive again and again—in 18th-century Virginia and in Revolutionary Paris. There are still statues in the public parks of the founders of the American and French Republics clad in the togas or the armor of Cincinnatus or Horatius” (Rexroth, 92-93). “Livy, not Virgil, “This was the first of that stately array of folio translations of the classics which issued from the gave Rome her epic.” pens of Philemon Holland, the ‘translator generall in his age’” (Pforzheimer 495). The section on the “Topographie of Rome in old time” is translated from the work of J. Bartholomew Marlian. —Kenneth Rexroth With woodcut-engraved title, initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut portrait of Livy, and a woodcutengraved portrait of Queen Elizabeth, to whom this edition is dedicated, on verso of title. Occasional mispagination as issued without loss of text; wwithout initial blank. STC 16613. Brueggemann, 634. Harris, 94. Lowndes, 1374. Owner signature. Early inked marginalia. Interior with some leaves expertly cleaned; first two and several other leaves with expert paper restoration, including a bit of loss to one letter on title page; a few leaves with minor wormholing; expert restoration to boards. An extremely good copy.

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The Father Of Modern Political Science: 1675 First Edition In English Of Machiavelli’s Works, Handsome In Contemporary Calf 53. MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo. The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. London, 1675. Folio, contemporary full calf rebacked with original spine laid down. $13,500. First edition in English of this comprehensive collection of the great Italian statesman’s most important writings, the foundation of the modern study of politics. Includes The Art of War, Discourses on Livy, and his primer of power politics, The Prince, bound in contemporary calf. “Machiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind… Politics was a science to be divorced entirely from ethics, and nothing must stand in the way of its machinery” (PMM 63). “Machiavelli is a popular symbol for the… completely unprincipled, and unscrupulous politician whose whole philosophy is that the end justifies the means… From a comparative reading of [Discourses and The Prince], one must come to the startling conclusion that Machiavelli was a convinced republican. He had no liking for despotism, and considered a combination of popular and monarchical government best. No ruler was safe without the favor of his people. The most stable states are those ruled by princes checked by constitutional limitations… His ideal government was the old Roman republic, and he constantly harked back to it in the Discourses… It is hardly disputable that no man previous to Karl Marx has had as revolutionary an impact on political thought as Machiavelli” (Downs, 12). “He more than any other political thinker created the meaning that has been attached to the state in mod“Machiavelli founded the ern political usage” (Sabine 351). As Lord Acton noted, “The authentic interpreter of Machiavelli is the whole of later history.” Included is “Nicholas Machiavel’s Letter to science of modern politics on Zanobius Buondelmontius in Vindication of Himself and His Writings,” which was in the study of mankind.” fact authored by Henry Neville, the translator of this edition. There are two issues of this work in 1675: one with the general title page imprint, “Printed for John Starkey,” —Printing & the Mind of Man and another, “Printed for J.S.” (as here). Separate title pages for The History of Florence, The Prince, The Discourses and The Art of War (as issued). With decorative woodcut headpieces, initials. Without publisher’s catalogue at rear. Occasional mispagination, as issued. Bibliografia Machiavelliana 70a. Wing M128. Lowndes 1438. Old pencil owner signature. Small manuscript marginal correction to leaf [(3*3)]. Scattered mild foxing, tiny hole to P1, affecting letters but not sense of text, occasional marginal closed tears, handsome contemporary calf binding with expert restoration. An excellent copy.


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pl ato “The Works Of Plato May Be Properly Considered The Scriptures Of The Ancient World”: First Edition Set Of The First Complete Works Of Plato Translated Into English 54. PLATO. The Works of Plato, viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles, Translated from the Greek. London, 1804. Five volumes. Quarto, period-style full straight-grain black morocco gilt. $22,000. First edition of the first complete English translation of Plato’s works, prepared by the leading Platonist of his day, still considered unequaled. From the library and with the bookplates of Francis Currer, “England’s earliest female bibliophile” and close friend of Charlotte Brontë, who reportedly adopted the pseudonym of Currer Bell in honor of her. Handsomely bound.

“It has been truly said

“Amidst a great diversity, both of subject and treatment, [Plato’s] dialogues are pervaded by two dominant impulses: a love of truth and a passion for human improvement” (PMM 27). “Thanks the learning and industry of Messrs. Sydenham and Taylor, we have now the whole of the ideas can be found in to works of this wonderful philosopher brought within the reach of the English public, with a great Plato.” —Printing & the variety of learned notes and instructive dissertations. The works of Plato may be properly considered the Scriptures of the ancient world” (Allibone, 2361). Bound with individual half titles; with engraved plate of diagrams (I). Lowndes, 1877. With armorial bookplates in Volume Mind of Man I and II of eminent bibliophile Frances Mary Richardson Currer, whose library was so renowned that she had been placed at “at the head of all female collectors in Europe” (Dibdin, Reminiscences). As “England’s earliest female bibliophile,” Currer inherited the sumptuous Richardson and Currer estates in the early 1800s, and continued to add to her exceptional library, which would ultimately number over 15,000 volumes. It is believed the pseudonym Charlotte Brontë, chose for her first book, Currer Bell, was in honor of her friend and neighbor Francis Currer. Interior generally fresh with light scattered foxing, minor expert archival restoration to lower edge of diagram plate not affecting image. Beautifully bound.

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robert burton “The Most Frequently Reprinted Psychiatric Text”: Burton’s Anatomy Of Melancholy, 1628 55. (BURTON, Robert). Democritus Junior. The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, With all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & severall cures of it. Oxford, 1628. Quarto, period-style full black morocco gilt. $8200. Important third (expanded) edition, in which Burton promises to make no further alterations, with the first appearance of the famous allegorical title page, presenting a full iconography of melancholy.

“Certainly one of the most imaginative, witty, and

The Anatomy of Melancholy, “the first psychiatric encyclopedia” written in any language inexhaustibly rich books (Norman 381), helped popularize what had previously been a mysterious and largely unexplored topic: the mental state that has come to be called depression. Burton ever written.” elaborately divides the Anatomy into four main sections and numerous subsections, each of which treats the causes, symptoms and cures of various types of melancholy. —Jenkins, Works of Genius “One of the most fascinating books in literature… There is a unique charm in Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy. Dr. Johnson said that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he intended to rise… On every page is the impress of a singularly deep and original genius” (DNB III, 465-66). “All the learning of the age as well as its humour… [is] there. It has something in common with Brant’s Ship of Fools, Erasmus’s Praise of Folly, and More’s Utopia, with Rabelais and Montaigne, and like all these it exercised a considerable influence on the thought of the time” (PMM 120). “The most frequently reprinted psychiatric text” (Hunter and McAlpine, 94). With decorative woodcut headpieces and initials. PMM 120. STC 4161. Owner signature to title page dated 1795. Occasional old marginalia. Interior with light marginal foxing, occasional faint dampstaining. Small loss to upper corner of allegorical title page expertly restored; title page expertly remargined. Beautifully bound.


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john steinbeck “I’ll Be Ever’where—Wherever You Look. Wherever They’s A Fight So Hungry People Can Eat, I’ll Be There” 56. STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York, 1939. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth, dust jacket, custom half morocco clamshell box. $14,000. First edition, first issue, of Steinbeck’s most important novel, his searing masterpiece of moral outrage and “intense humanity,” winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize.

“A

“It is a long novel, the longest that Steinbeck has written, and yet it reads as if it had been mighty, mighty book.” composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum… Steinbeck has written a novel from the depths of his heart with a sincerity seldom equaled” —William Kennedy (Peter Monro Jack). “The Grapes of Wrath is the kind of art that’s poured out of a crucible in which are mingled pity and indignation… Its power and importance do not lie in its political insight but in its intense humanity… [It] is the American novel of the season, probably the year, possibly the decade” (Clifton Fadiman). First issue, with “First Published in April 1939” on copyright page and first edition notice on front flap of dust jacket. Goldstone & Payne A12a. Salinas Public Library, 29. Bruccoli & Clark I:354. Book fine, dust jacket with almost none of the usual toning to spine, one tiny rub to rear panel. A beautiful copy in about-fine condition.


m a rga ret mi tchell “My Dear, I Don’t Give A Damn”: First Edition Of Gone With The Wind, Inscribed By Margaret Mitchell In The Year Of Publication 57. MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York, 1936. Thick octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $24,000. First edition, first printing, of this American classic, inscribed by the author: “For Mrs. B.J. Fisher from Margaret Mitchell, July 1, 1936.”

“The definitive telling of one of the basic American mythologies: the passing

“This is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American away, in blood and ashes, writer. It is also one of the best… It has been a long while since the American public has been offered such a bounteous feast of excellent story-telling” (New York Times of the grand old South.” Book Review, 1936). Said to be the fastest selling novel in the history of American —Time Magazine publishing (50,000 copies in a single day), Gone with the Wind won Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize. First printing, with “Published May, 1936” on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. Books of the Century, 111. Eicher 730. In Tall Cotton 125. Interior fine; expert cleaning to inscribed leaf. Light toning to original cloth with expert repair to spine head. Expert restoration to extremities of bright dust jacket. A near-fine inscribed copy.


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father louis hen nepin First English Translation Of Hennepin’s New Discovery, 1698, With Two Folding Maps And Six Plates, Including The First View Of Niagara Falls 58. HENNEPIN, Father Louis. A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America. ISSUED WITH: A Continuation of the New Discovery. ISSUED WITH: An Account of Several New Discoveries in North-America. London, 1698. Small thick octavo (5 by 7-1/2 inches), 18th-century full brown calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $30,000. First edition in English of Hennepin’s two important accounts (in three parts) of his American exploration, with additional engraved title page, two large folding maps and six folding copper-engraved plates, including the first view of Niagara Falls. Jefferson owned copies of Hennepin’s works, and his maps influenced the planning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, handsomely bound by Bedford. “Invaluable contributions to One of the most famous 17th century explorers, Louis Hennepin was a member of the 1675 La Salle expedition to Canada and while in Quebec extensively studied native cultures. “He was an acute observer, and his books contain most minute and history… and to this day accurate descriptions of the characteristics, arts and customs of the Indians” (Catholic Encyclopedia). In 1680 Hennepin was dispatched to explore the Mississippi furnish rare entertainment.” and was briefly held captive by a tribe of Issati Sioux. Following his first published —Reuben Gold Thwaites work Description de la Louisiane (1683), Hennepin published Nouvelle Decourverte (1697) and Nouveau Voyage (1698). This first English translation conjoins the latter two works with a chronicle of Marquette’s voyages, not in the Utrecht editions, and features two folding “maps of the French territories [that] were among the best of the period” (America Explored, 155). These maps “had a major influence on the planning of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Thomas Jefferson owned first editions of all three of Hennepin’s works and consulted them in preparing his 1803 western treatise An Account of Louisiana” (University of Virginia). New Discovery made “one of the most significant contributions to the early exploration of North America” (Bonham). This is the so-called “Bon” issue (probably the first). In the bibliographies, the engraved title page is sometimes called a frontispiece. Occasional mispagination as issued without loss of text. Wing H1450. Pforzheimer 461. Church 772. Sabin 31370-72. Howes H416. Field 685. Graff 1862. Streeter 106. ESTC R6723. Text and plates quite fresh and clean, minor expert archival repair to folding maps, lightest edge-wear, rubbing to boards. A splendid about-fine copy.

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“One of the essential books for an

Gass volunteered as a private for the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1803 (he was promoted to sergeant August 26, 1804). “A most reliable man, Gass accompanied the expedition to the Americana collection.” Pacific… keeping a careful and valuable journal. On October 10, 1806, after the return to St. —Thomas Streeter Louis, Lewis gave Gass a certificate stating that, ‘the ample support which he gave me, under every difficulty; the manly firmness which he evinced on every necessary occasion; and the fortitude with which he bore the fatigues and painful sufferings incident to that long voyage, intitles [sic] him to my highest confidence and sincere thanks’… [In Washington, Gass] arranged for publication of his journal which appeared seven years before the official Lewis and Clark narrative was published” (Thrapp II:542). Gass was the last survivor of the expedition, dying at age 99 in 1870. With half title (ix) as issued, first and final blanks. Sabin 26741. Wagner-Camp 6:1. Several contemporary and later signatures to free endpapers. Occasional scattered light foxing, less than usual. Usual age wear to original binding, with loss to spine tail and right-hand corners of original boards. An extremely good copy, important and desirable, most scarce in original binding.

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The Cornerstone Of American Exploration: Exceedingly Rare First Edition In Contemporary Boards Of The Definitive Account Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, The Most Important Exploration Of The North American Continent, With Important Large Folding Map 60. LEWIS, Meriwether and CLARK, William. 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 River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6… Prepared for the Press by Paul Allen. Philadelphia, 1814. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown sheep, custom half morocco clamshell box. $250,000.

life. There is only speculation on what kept him from preparing the journals for the publisher, but no one can know the cause for certain… When Clark arrived at Monticello [where the journals had been sent], there was apparently some talk about Jefferson’s taking over the journals and doing the editing to prepare them for the printer. There was no man alive who had a greater interest in the subject, or one who had better qualifications for the job. But he was sixty-five years old… After some false starts, Clark persuaded Nicholas Biddle to Exceptionally rare first edition, one of only 1,417 copies undertake the work. Biddle was only 26 years old, but he was printed, of the definitive account of the most important ex- a prodigy… In 1814, the book appeared, titled The History of ploration of the North American continent, with the famous the Expedition Under the Commands of Captains Lewis and large folding map of the course of the expedition and five Clark. It was a narrative and paraphrase of the journals, in-text maps. completely true to the original, retaining some of the more “First authorized and complete account of the most impor- delightful phrases, but with the spelling corrected. [As a retant western exploration and the first of many overland nar- sult of the failing health of Dr. Barton, who was to do the ratives to follow” (Howes L317). “American explorers had for scientific volume] Biddle did relatively little with the flora and fauna… For the next ninety years, the first time spanned the continental Biddle’s edition was the only printed “Perhaps the most United States and had driven the first account based on the journals. As a rewedge toward opening up our new far important account of sult, Lewis and Clark got no credit for western frontier” (Streeter 1777). “The most of their discoveries. Plants, rivers, importance of exploring this area [bediscovery and exploration animals, birds that they had described yond the Missouri River] had been eviand named were newly discovered by dent to Thomas Jefferson as early as ever written.” naturalists, and the names that these 1783… but it was not until twenty years men gave them were the ones that stuck. later that Jefferson, then President of the —Paul Russell Cutright Lewis had cheated himself out of a rank United States, saw the realization of his idea… The purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France not far below Darwin as a naturalist” (Ambrose, 469-470). in December 1803 greatly increased the importance of the “The Lewis and Clark expedition stands as a major event in expedition, which finally began its long journey [in 1804]… American history, solidly establishing our title to the vast They wintered in the Mandan villages in the Dakotas and in Louisiana Territory and later to the Oregon country. The exthe Spring pushed on west across the Rocky Mountains and plorations revealed a strange and unknown world, full of exthen down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. citing wonders, and pointed the way to its possibilities for Returning by the same route nearly two-and-a-half years af- future development” (Downs, Books that Changed America, ter they had set out they arrived back in St. Louis in September 40). Sabin 855 and 40828. Graff 2477. Wagner-Camp 13.1. 1806 to the amazed delight of the nation which had given Paltsits, lxxvii. Small three-by-three inch section of map rethem up for lost. Though unsuccessful in their attempt to find stored in fine facsimile and with repaired four-inch tear near a transcontinental water route, they had demonstrated the gutter, title page of second volume and several leaves of text feasibility of overland travel to the western coast” (Printing with short tears expertly repaired, free endpapers absent in and the Mind of Man, 272). A number of years passed between second volume, usual browning and foxing throughout, the end of the expedition and the 1814 printing of the official scarce contemporary bindings a bit worn but fully intact. A account. Lewis had made some arrangements for publication, desirable and complete copy of the most important work in but upon his suicide in 1809 Clark undertook the project, American western exploration. which was in disarray. “This is the great mystery of Lewis’s

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ben jonson “Perhaps The Only One Worthy To Rank With” Shakespeare: Exceedingly Rare And Important Folio First Editions Of Jonson’s Works 61. JONSON, Ben. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. WITH: The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The second Volume Containing These Playes, Viz. I Bartholomew Fayre. 2 The Staple of Newes. 3. The Divell is an Asse. London, 1616, 1640-41. Two volumes, uniformly bound. Folio, late 19th-century full brown speckled calf gilt rebacked with original spines laid down, custom clamshell boxes. $35,000. Exceedingly rare first editions of the first collected Workes of Ben Jonson, two folio volumes, rarely found together, containing the 1616 Works, whose publication was personally supervised by Jonson, and the 1640-41 Works with its initial three plays in the original and mostly unsold sheets from the 1631 edition also supervised by Jonson, both “If Shakespeare was handsomely and uniformly bound, with engraved allegorical title page in Volume I. Ben Jonson was “dramatist, friend and contemporary of Shakespeare, and perhaps the only one worthy to rank with him” (Hartnoll, 446). In 1616, the year of Shakespeare’s death, James I granted Jonson a pension, essentially identifying him as the first Poet Laureate of England. That of dramatic poets, same year Jonson published the first folio edition of his Workes, which “raised the drama to a Jonson was the Virgil.” new level of respectability” (Drabble, 517). Completing this two-volume collection is the impressive first folio edition of Jonson’s 1640-41 Workes, which features original sheets from the —John Dryden 1631 collected publication of three plays, along with additional masques, poetry, Tale of the Tub and more. Jonson personally supervised the printing of the 1616 authoritative Workes, and the 1631 publication of the initial three plays in the 1840-41 Workes. These two exceptional folio volumes, rarely found together, affirm Dryden’s conclusion that if “Shakespeare was the Homer or father of dramatic poets, Jonson was the Virgil” (Allibone I:998). First editions, small-paper copies (both also issued in large-paper). Occasional mispagination, as issued, text complete. Pforzheimer 559-560. STC 14751, 14754. Greg III:1070-82. Grolier 100, English. Volume II title page with neat repair to lower corner, not affecting border or text. A few marginal tears, occasional light spotting and soiling, a few very small rust holes. An excellent copy.

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homer /a lex a nder pope “He Made The Father Of All Poetry Live…”: First Editions Of Pope’s Famous Translations Of Homer’s Iliad And Odyssey, 1715-26 62. (POPE, Alexander) HOMER. Iliad of Homer. WITH: The Odyssey of Homer. London, 1715-26. Eleven volumes bound as five. Small folio (7-1/2 by 12 inches), contemporary full paneled brown calf gilt sympathetically rebacked. $32,000. Rare first editions, folio issues, of Pope’s famous illustrated translations, esteemed by Samuel Johnson as “certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen,” with frontispiece bust portraits of Homer by Vertue and five plates (including a double-page map of Phyrgia and the often absent “Shield of Achilles”), handsomely bound.

“The first perfect poetry of the western world. They spring fully grown, their predecessors lost,

Pope’s long-lasting literary fame rests to a large degree on the great success and and their magic has persisted ever extensive influence of these translations. The six volumes of the Iliad were issued between 1715-20. “Contemporaneously with the quarto [for subscribers] since. The legends of the siege of [Lintot] issued the work in two forms, a Large Paper folio and a Small (or ‘ordinary’) folio” (Griffith 39). These volumes belong to the ordinary folio Troy and the return of Odysseus issue. The five volumes of the Odyssey were published between 1725-26, in quarto and large-paper folio. These volumes belong to the folio issue, here are the common heritage of all.” trimmed to match the Iliad’s ordinary folio in size. With all half titles (Iliad, —Printing & the Mind of Man Volume I and Odyssey, all volumes) and privilege leaves. Iliad bound with: frontispiece portrait by Vertue; the five plates on two leaves (Volume I, between Preface and Essay); folding map of Phrygia (following “Observations on the Second Book”); folding view of Troy (Volume II); and the often-missing Shield of Achilles (Volume V). Odyssey bound with engraved frontispiece portrait by Vertue. Griffith 42, 50, 78, 96, 115, 119, 152, 156, 160, 167, 171. Rothschild 1573, 1590. Brueggemann, 25-26. Moss I:521, 525-6. Lowndes, 1100. Armorial bookplates. Scattered light foxing, occasional light embrowning. Minor marginal worming to first few leaves of Iliad, Volume I. Odyssey frontispiece portrait with marginal repair. Contemporary paneled calf boards with light expert restoration.


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1615 First Edition Of Ocho Comedias, Containing His Great Prologue On The Spanish Theater—Of Extraordinary Rarity 63. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. Ocho Comedias, y Ocho Entremeses Nuevos, Nunca Representados. Madrid, 1615. Small quarto, period-style full vellum, custom half morocco clamshell box. $145,000. First edition, his only theatrical work published in his lifetime and published the year before his death. After being a soldier for many years and in captivity in Algiers for five and a half, Cervantes returned home to Madrid and in the 1580s turned to writing, first his novel Galatea and then to theatrical productions. Cervantes’ career as a playwright was short-lived, as Lope de Vega soon appeared on the scene and “flooded the theatres of Spain with an unending stream of plays of every description…With the star of Lope de Vega in the ascendant Cervantes found his stage occupation gone, and he appears to have cast about for some other employment that would enable him to support his household [and] re-entered the king’s service in a civil capacity” (Albert Frederick Calvert). For the next twenty years, it is thought that Cervantes wrote little and known that he published nothing. It was at the end of his life, after the spectacular success of Don Quixote, that Cervantes turned once again to the theater, revisiting some older works and perhaps writing some new ones. In 1615, the year before his death, he published the eight full-length comedies and the eight “Only Cervantes and Shakespeare entremés, or short comic interludes performed between the occupy the highest eminence; you acts of plays, found in this volume. The famous prologue contains Cervantes’ important survey of contemporary cannot get ahead of them, because Spanish theatre, with remarks on Lope de Rueda, Navarro, Lope de Vega, and others. Four of the plays included deal they are always there before you.” with the conflict between Christians and Muslims, a topic of great interest to Cervantes as it relates directly to his —Harold Bloom captivity in North Africa. Of particular interest to modern readers, however, are the entremés, or interludes, which “are, on the whole, more original and interesting— even brilliant at times—than the long plays; no other writer in this minor genre surpasses his work. Here we see Cervantes’ comic genius, keen observation of human psychology, sharp sense of satire, great sense of timing, ability to write lively and realistic dialogue (as he does in Don Quixote) and ability to create great characters in a brief space” (Howard Mancing). Of extraordinary rarity. A Quaritch catalogue from the 1800s notes that “the editor of the second edition (published in 1749) speaks in his preface of the original book of 1615 as being ‘rarisimo y poco conocido,’ as if his own reissue was intended to restore the knowledge of a work forgotten because of its rarity.” Only two copies are known to have appeared on the market in the past 30 years; 12 copies are found on OCLC. Ford & Lansing, 31. Palau 53948. Owner ink inscription, evidence of bookplate. Text cleaned, a few mended marginal tears. A handsome copy in excellent condition.


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v irgini a woolf First Signed Limited Edition Of Virginia Woolf’s Classic 64. WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. New York and London, 1929. Octavo, original cinnamon cloth, custom half red morocco clamshell box. $15,000.

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction, and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved.” —Virginia Woolf

Signed limited first edition, one of 492 copies distinctively signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink. Woolf’s compelling essay on women and writing has become a classic feminist text. Her “aim was to establish a woman’s tradition, recognizable by its circumstances, subject-matter, and its distinct problems… A Room of One’s Own charted this vast territory with an air of innocent discovery which itself sharpens the case against induced ineffectiveness and ignorance that for so long clouded the counter-history of women” (Gordon, 182). “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” said Woolf, “and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved.” Printed in the U.S. by Robert Josephy and published on October 21, 1929; this edition preceded the English edition (both trade and signed) by three days. Woolmer 215A. Kirkpatrick A12. Light sunning to original cloth. A near-fine signed copy.

ludw ig va n beethov en “More An Expression Of Feeling Than A Painting”: First Edition Of Beethoven’s “Pastoral” (Sixth) Symphony 65. BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Sixieme symphonie Pastorale en fa majeur… Oeuvre 68. Leipzig, 1826. Royal octavo, early three-quarter brown morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down, portions of original printed pink paper wrappers mounted to boards. $8500. First edition of the full score of Beethoven’s Sixth (Pastoral) Symphony—“What a cheerful, genial, beneficent view over the whole realm of Nature and man!” (Grove)—handsomely bound, with boards preserving much of the original wrappers. The announcement of Beethoven’s concert of December 22, 1808 appearing a few days “In terms of both poetic earlier in the Wiener Zeitung referred to “A Symphony, entitled: ‘A Recollection of Country Life.’” The word “pastoral” is first found in a violin part (now in the Gesellschaft der idea and its means of Musikfreunde, Vienna) used at the first performance. Beethoven feared that the “program” aspect of the symphony would overwhelm the music, and he warned that the symphony realization, the Pastoral was “More an expression of feeling than a painting.” Despite the composer’s admonition, the “Pastoral” is program music at its best, a vivid expression of feelings inspired by the Symphony was one of natural world—especially the realistic birdcalls in the coda of the second movement, and the small-town brass band and “muttering of thunder” in the third movement (Sherman Beethoven’s most original, & Biancoli, 581). “To the end of his life Beethoven was a lover of the country… It was a love inspired, and influential that went deeper than the townsman’s delight in pretty places and fresh air… In the presence of field, trees and hills Beethoven felt himself nearer to the spirit of divine things works.” —Barry Cooper than he did among men and buildings; and his art responded in like degree, for it was during his lonely rambles that his inspiration came most fluently and his compositions most readily assumed their nature and course” (Grove I:556). Kinsky-Halm, 163. Manuscript note on front free endpaper by noted 19th-century music scholar and music collector Julian Marshall. “In later years he formed a valuable collection of musical autographs and portraits, wrote much on musical subjects and contributed to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians” (DNB). Bookseller’s small inkstamp to title page. Armorial bookplate. Scattered light foxing, expert restoration to corners.


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“America’s Second Declaration Of Independence”: Rare First Edition In Original First State Binding Of Whitman’s Leaves Of Grass, The Most Important And Influential Volume Of American Poetry, A Beautiful Copy 66. WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: 1855. Quarto, original dark olive green cloth gilt, custom cloth chemise and morocco slipcase. $165,000. Extraordinarily scarce and important first edition of the most important volume of American poetry, one of only 337 copies in extra-gilt first state cloth binding. “In Whitman we have a democrat who set out to imagine the life of the average man in average circumstances changed into something grand and heroic… There has never been a more remarkable poem” (Callow). Whitman personally financed, supervised and even in some sections hand-set the type for the small printing of 795 copies. “No one knows for certain how Whitman raised the money to pay for the first Leaves of Grass… Whitman had taken his manuscript to a couple of friends, the brothers James and Thomas Rome, who had a printing shop at the corner of Fulton and Cranberry Streets. Possibly the author had tried a commercial publisher first and had the book rejected. If so, he kept quiet about it. The Romes did print a few books but specialized in the printing of legal documents. Whitman, a proud and skilled printer, moved in on them to oversee the production of Leaves. They allowed him to set type himself whenever he felt like it. Ten pages or so were his own work. He had a routine and a special chair over in the corner… The engraved portrait facing the title page (showed) a person who looked as if he might be the printer rather than the author. He was unnamed… The centerpiece of his strange book, in the ‘rough and ragged thicket of its pages,’ was a sustained poem of fifty-two sections called ‘Song of Myself’… If Emerson is, in John Dewey’s words, the philosopher of democracy, then Whitman is indisputably its poet. In Whitman we have a democrat who set out to imagine the life of the average man in average circumstances changed into “Whitman, the one man something grand and heroic… He claimed that he had never been given a proper hearing, and spent his whole life trying to publish himself. A hundred breaking a way ahead. Whitman, years after his death, the strange fate of his book is known. He said often enough that it had been a financial failure, signed it and himself over to posterity, a the one pioneer… Ahead of all ‘candidate for the future’… There has never been a more remarkable poem” poets, pioneering into the (Callow, From Noon to Starry Night). “Always the champion of the common man, Whitman is both the poet and the wilderness of unopened life, prophet of democracy… In a sense, it is America’s second Declaration of Whitman. Beyond him, none.” Independence: that of 1776 was political, this of 1855 intellectual” (PMM 340). The first edition of Leaves of Grass was a failure with the public, but upon —D.H. Lawrence receiving a copy, Emerson responded with his famous letter. “I find it [Leaves of Grass] the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed… I greet you at the beginning of a great career.” Only 795 copies of the first edition were printed; this notoriously fragile book is exceedingly rare in the original cloth. This copy is one of the 337 copies in extra-gilt first state binding and bound first, in June and July 1855 (Myerson’s Binding A), with title and triple rule gilt-stamped on front and back boards, and title and floral ornaments gilt-stamped on spine (Myerson A2.1); without the insertion of the eight pages of press notices included in later copies. BAL 21395. Wells & Goldsmith, 3-4. Grolier American 67. Myerson A2.1.al Early owner ink signature to title page; an early owner has also inked “Walt Whitman” in a neat hand below the engraved portrait. Expert restoration to spine ends only; a few tiny spots of foxing to frontispiece portrait, less than often found; title page and text generally quite clean, far better than often found. Cloth fresh and near-fine with gilt bright and lovely. An exceptional copy of this rarest and most important of American literary landmarks.


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f. scot t fi tzger a ld “Bibliophile, Drunkard And Good Egg”: Wonderful Presentation Copy Of The Beautiful And Damned, Warmly Inscribed By Fitzgerald In The Year Of Publication

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67. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. New York, 1922. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $75,000. First edition, first issue, an exceptional presentation copy whimsically inscribed in the year of publication by Fitzgerald: “For Wilbur Judd, Parisien, Critic, Playrite, Bibliophile, Drunkard and Good Egg, From F. Scott Fitzgerald, St. Paul 1922,” in scarce second-issue dust jacket (issued within months of the first-issue jacket).

“The Beautiful and Damned brought Fitzgerald accolades from those whose opinions he valued. Mencken congratulated him for staking out new ground… Fitzgerald was aiming bound for dust—mortal—” high; he only wanted to be the best novelist of his generation” (Turnbull, 130-31). Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, “I wish The Beautiful and Damned had been a maturely written book —F. Scott Fitzgerald because it was all true. We ruined ourselves… I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other” (Bruccoli, 180). First issue, with “Published March, 1922” on copyright page; second-issue dust jacket with letters on front panel in black and bolder orange circle, issued within months of the first issue to meet demand for the book. Bruccoli A8.1.a. Text fine, only very light edge-wear to original cloth; slight chipping, small closed tears, mild soiling to scarce unrestored dust jacket. A wonderful extremely good unrestored copy, scarce inscribed.

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i a n fleming “Bond Had Become Irreplaceable”: First Edition Of From Russia, With Love, Inscribed By Ian Fleming 68. FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. London, 1957. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $52,000. Scarce first edition of one of the most successful Bond novels, “Mr. Fleming’s tautest, most exciting, and most brilliant tale” (The Spectator), inscribed: “To Geoffrey van Dantzig from Ian Fleming.”

“Bond was a carefully constructed amalgam of what many men

Fleming considered this, his fifth Bond novel, in many ways his best; and would like to be… handsome, when, in 1961, President Kennedy named it among his ten favorite books, “JFK’s seal of approval was just the fillip that Viking, Ian’s new [American] elegant, brave, tough, at ease in publishers, needed for his books to take off in the United States” (Lycett, 383). “Described in the Times Literary Supplement as ‘most brilliant,’ the book was expensive surrounding, predatory a great commercial success and helped to launch Fleming as a best-selling novelist… It ended with Bond seriously wounded… and nearly killed… by and yet chivalrous.” fugu poision from the sex organs of the Japanese globe-fish… While the —Dictionary of National Biography ending was not quite Sherlock Holmes and his apparently fatal last struggle with evil at the Reichenbach Falls, Fleming had provided himself with an opportunity to remove his hero. He was not, however, to take it. There was public agitation when 007 was reported dead. Bond had become irreplaceable” (Black, 27, 30). From Russia was the first Bond novel to feature Richard Chopping’s distinctive artwork. With all points called for in Gilbert A5a (1.1). Gilbert A5a (1.1). Biondi & Pickard, 43-44. Book fine. Only a touch of very light edge wear to nearly fine, bright price-clipped dust jacket. A fine inscribed copy; copies of early Bond titles are becoming increasingly scarce.


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a lbert c a mus Inscribed By Nobel Laureate Albert Camus, Scarce Presentation First Edition Of La Peste, 1947 69. CAMUS, Albert. La Peste [The Plague]. Paris, 1947. Octavo, original stiff ivory paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $14,000. First trade edition of Camus’ gripping allegory of the German occupation, a memorable presentation copy inscribed by Camus to an award-winning French journalist and poet: “à René Laporte avec le souvenir cordial, Albert Camus,” in original wrappers. “Camus is not only a giant among French moralists—an important and characteristic “A modern myth about strain in French literature—but he stands as one of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century as well” (Pribic, Nobel Laureates in Literature, 75). “La Peste [The Plague] the destiny of man.” is parable and sermon, and should be considered as such. To criticize it by standards which apply to most fiction would be to risk condemning it for moralizing, which is —Thomas Merton exactly where it is strongest… There are certain things which need to be said now, without care for the future, and these are said in The Plague” (Stephen Spender, Books of the Century, 159). Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature the year this volume was published. Issued the same year as an edition of 2355 numbered or lettered copies. Connolly, The Modern Movement 95. Mahaffey, 222. Small label to early glassine. Slight edge-wear to early leaves, a bit of staining to original wrappers. A scarce near-fine inscribed copy.


kurt von negu t Signed By Kurt Vonnegut, First Edition Of Slaughterhouse-Five 70. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death. New York, 1969. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $8000. First edition of Vonnegut’s masterpiece, his “most powerful novel,” a modern classic of time travel, metaphysics and the morality—or lack thereof—of war, boldly signed by Vonnegut.

“It sounds like a fantastic

“During the decade of the 1960s Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. emerged as one of the most influential and provocative writers of fiction in America… Slaughterhouse-Five, perhaps Vonnegut’s most powerful novel, presents two characters who can see beneath the surface to the tragic realities of human history but make no attempt to bring about change… The central event is the destruction of Dresden by bombs and fire storm—a catastrophe that Vonnegut himself witnessed as a prisoner of war” (Vinson, 1414-15). “A masterpiece… A key work” (Anatomy of Wonder II:1204). With “First Printing” on copyright page. Currey, 407. Book fine, priceclipped dust jacket about-fine with only a few tiny spots. A handsome signed copy.

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last-ditch effort to make But there is so much more to this book. It is very tough and very funny; it is sad and delightful; and it works.” —New York Times

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“Sam Paris Nov 1952”: Presentation/Association Copy Of En Attendant Godot, Inscribed Within Weeks Of Publication By Beckett To Friends Henri And Josette Hayden—With The Friendship Between Beckett And Henri Said To Inspire Estragon And Vladimir In Godot 71. BECKETT, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Paris, 1952. Small octavo, original white paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $45,000. First trade edition of Beckett’s masterpiece, an exceptional presentation/association copy inscribed within weeks of publication by Beckett to close friends Henri and Josette Hayden: “A Henri et Jossette affecteusement Sam Paris Nov 1952,” with Beckett’s inscription preceding the premiere of Godot in Paris in January 1953. Beckett and the Haydens met while hiding from the Gestapo in France, and the intimate decades-long friendship between artist Henri and Beckett is said to be a likely inspiration for Estragon and Vladimir in Beckett’s play.

Hiding from the Gestapo during the Occupation, Samuel Beckett found refuge in the small French village of Roussillon in 1942, where he survived by working in the fields. Life improved “considerably with the arrival of two further refugees from Nazism: the Polish-born French painter Henri Hayden, and his much younger French wife, Josette.” Beckett quickly “warmed to the quiet elderly painter with his more voluble, lively companion… Soon Beckett was meeting Hayden fairly regularly in the café for a drink and it was not long before the two men found that they shared a love of chess as well as of painting… This marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship… Often Hayden would paint close to where Beckett was working, so that they could talk or share a picnic lunch of food and wine.” Many see, in Estragon and Vladimir of En “My little exploration is that Attendant Godot, traces of the friendship between Beckett and Hayden. If Estragon and Vladimir are constantly “contradicting each other simply to fill the time? Are whole zone of being that has they Beckett and Henri Hayden doing the same, as they meet regularly for chess? sense suggests that snatches of dialogue did emerge from similar little always been set aside by artists Common ‘canters’… Beckett has conceded as much privately to friends” (Knowlson, Damned to Fame, 192-343). as something unusable— Beckett’s friendship with the Haydens continued to be central to his life and work, and in many ways the friendship also led to Henri’s artistic renaissance after the war. When Hayden suffered a heart attack in London in 1962, and Beckett was in incompatible with art.” France for the opening of Happy Days, he “phoned regularly to find out about his —Samuel Beckett friend’s progress. He wrote to Hayden almost every other day… When the Haydens returned home a month later, Beckett was waiting for them… he could not do enough to help” (Knowlson, 448-9). In 1970, Beckett grieved intensely at the death of Henri, who died in Paris on May 12. First trade edition; preceded by only 35, quite rare, numbered copies in wrappers. Without rarely found original glassine. Text in French. Federman and Fletcher 259. Text fresh and clean with only lightest toning to edges, almost no edge-wear to wrappers. An exceptional about-fine inscribed copy. A presentation/association copy such as this is extremely rare, with barely one at auction in the last 30 years.

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m a rcel proust Proust’s A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, Very Rare Full First Edition Set In Original Wrappers, A Fine Copy 72. PROUST, Marcel. A la recherche du temps perdu. Paris, 1913-27. Thirteen volumes. Octavo, original paper wrappers, glassine, custom clamshell boxes. $37,000. First edition set of Proust’s masterpiece, exceptional copies in original wrappers, with the very rare first issue of the first volume, Du Côté de chez Swann (Swann’s Way).

“This masterpiece, at once so lucid and so mysterious, in

In a February 1908 letter Proust mentioned his intention to “start a rather long which he has found the means to work.” Fourteen years and some two million words later, in February of 1922, he wrote, “A la recherche du temps perdu is scarcely beginning.” Proust died nine express what seems inexpressible, months later, still in the midst of revisions and additions. Of his masterwork he said, “I have tried to put all my philosophy into it, to make all my ‘music’ resonate.” say what seems unsayable—it is Unable to find a publisher, Proust was forced to publish the first volume at his own expense with the publisher Bernard Grasset. Gallimard’s Nouvelle Revue a soul under guise of a book.” Francaise, which had rejected the book on the basis of a hasty reading by Andre —Ronald Hayman Gide, swiftly realized the error and agreed to publish the rest of the work. Traditionally translated Remembrance of Things Past, the complete work, which is largely autobiographical, consists of seven interrelated sections: Du Côté de chez Swann, A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, Le Côté de Guermantes, Sodome et Gomorrhe, La Prisonnière, Albertine disparue and Le Temps retrouvé. All volumes here are first editions, with the first volume being the very rare first issue. The final eleven volumes are each of a limited edition, although the limitation sizes and numbers vary from volume to volume. Text in French. Interiors fine, with only a bit of evidence of tape repair along front inner paper hinge of Swann’s Way. Fragile original wrappers and glassine in extraordinary condition, with almost no signs of wear. A beautiful copy.


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v l a dimir na bokov “Light Of My Life, Fire Of My Loins”: Fine First Edition Of Lolita, 1955, A Superb Copy 73. NABOKOV, Vladimir. Lolita. Paris, 1955. Two volumes. Small octavo, original green paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $15,000.

“A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...” —Vladimir Nabokov

Superb first edition, first issue, of one of the most famous and controversial novels of the 20th century. “Brilliant… One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year” (New York Times). The saga of Lolita began well before its publication in 1955. It was turned down by a number of American publishers, all of whom feared the repercussions of publishing such a “pornographic” work. Finally issued by the Olympia Press in Paris, the first edition sold out quickly in Europe, but was not warmly received abroad: the British government pressured the French to ban the novel, and it was not published in America until 1958. First issue, with the price of “Francs: 900” on the rear wrappers (brisk sales spurred the publisher to raise the price later to 1200 francs). Field 0793. Juliar 428.1.1. Text fine. Fragile wrappers in exceptionally lovely condition, with most minor rubbing to spine ends. Quite scarce in such beautiful condition. A very nearly fine copy.


gustav e fl aubert “Bovary C’est Moi”: Scarce First Edition Of Flaubert’s Masterpiece, In Exceptionally Rare Original Wrappers 74. FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Moeurs de Province. Paris, 1857. Two volumes. Thick 12mo, original printed pale green paper wrappers, original glassine, custom chemises and morocco-edged slipcases. $18,000. Rare first edition, first issue in book form, of Flaubert’s literary masterpiece, “the definitive model of the novel” (Émile Zola) and the work that “ushered the age of realism into modern European literature,” in exceptionally rare original wrappers. A beautiful copy. Upon publication of Madame Bovary, both Flaubert and his publisher were brought to trial “A masterpiece of the on charges of immorality and narrowly escaped conviction (the same tribunal found Charles Baudelaire guilty on the same charge six months later). Although purportedly based in part contemporary novel.” on the circumstances of Flaubert’s friend Louise Pradier, the author’s claim that “Madame Bovary is myself,” with his unrelenting objectivity and deep compassion for his characters, —Gustave Lanson and earned him a reputation as the great master of the Realist school of French literature. Flaubert’s Paul Tuffraut attention to minute particulars of description and his belief in “le mot juste” significantly influenced later writers and thinkers, making Madame Bovary integral to the evolution of modern literature. First serialized in La Revue de Paris in October and December of 1856, this is the first issue in book form, with misspelling of “Senard” as “Senart” on dedication page. With both half titles; bound without publisher’s advertisements. Text in French. Armorial bookplate of William M. Fitzhugh, the renowned book collector, laid in. Small closed tear to rear wrapper and glassine of Volume I and mild toning to spines. A superb copy in about-fine condition, exceedingly rare in fragile original wrappers.


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k en neth gr a h a me “One Of The Most Endearing Books Ever Written For Children,” A Superb Uncut Copy 75. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. London, 1908. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $15,000. First edition of the beloved children’s novel, which author A.A. Milne once referred to as a “household book,” “one of the classic read-aloud books that should not be missed by any family” (Silvey). A very lovely copy. “Unquestionable is the permanence, as an inspired and characteristically English contribution to children’s literature, of Kenneth Grahame’s The claim to be regarded as the finest Wind in the Willows… one of the most endearing books ever written for children… Part of the secret success of the book is that its appeal is ageless and parents never tire of reading it aloud. Like all great books it is achievement of children’s inexhaustible” (Eyre, 62). Grahame created his classic as a series of bedtime literature up to the date at which stories for his four-year-old son Alastair, who was known as Mouse; yet it also became “in many respects an elegy for the old idyllic English rural life it was written, and perhaps which Grahame could now see was passing away forever” (Carpenter & Prichard, 218). In a letter to Theodore Roosevelt, Grahame described the afterwards.” —Humphrey Carpenter book as “an expression of the very simplest of joys of life as lived by the simplest beings.” C.S. Lewis praised it as “a perfect example of the kind of story which can express things without explaining them” (Carpenter, 168). Without extremely rare original dust jacket. Pierpont Morgan Children’s Literature 269. Only very occasional pinpoint foxing to interior, original cloth generally fine, gilt exceptionally bright. A superb copy in near-fine condition.

“The Wind in the Willows has a


c . s . lew is “The Most Sustained Achievement In Fantasy For Children By A 20th-Century Author”: Scarce Complete First Edition Set Of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles Of Narnia 76. LEWIS, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia. London, 1950-56. Together, seven volumes. Octavo, original colored cloth, dust jackets, custom clamshell box. $49,000. First editions of all seven books in Lewis’ cherished Chronicles of Narnia, “intoxicating to all but the most relentlessly unimaginative of readers,” all in original dust jackets. Generally excellent condition. Lewis is likely best remembered for his beloved fantasy series, the Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis was “concerned to do for children what he had done for an adult readership in his science fiction… to re-imagine the Christian story in an exciting narrative context… [The Narnia books are] intoxicating to all but the most relentlessly unimaginative of readers, and must be judged the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-century author” (Carpenter & Pritchard, 370). All seven books were “illustrated by Pauline Baynes in delightful fashion. She was also responsible for the now amazingly rare gray dust wrapper” of the first book (Cooper & Cooper, 206). “Adored by children and academics alike, these books are extremely collectible, sought-after and scarce” (Connolly, 186). Fantasy and Horror 5-176. Owner signatures, gift inscriptions. Booksellers’ small tickets in Dawn Treader and Horse. Small inkstamp to rear pastedown of Last Battle. Books near-fine to fine, a few books with light toning to spines and extreme edges of boards. Dust jackets extremely good to fine, minor restoration to Caspian and Silver Chair dust jackets. Complete first edition sets of the Narnia books are increasingly scarce and most desirable.

“Lewis, who claimed he wrote stories he would have liked to read as a child, said that the Narnia Chronicles began with pictures he had in his mind. It is the magic and wonder of these images that readers remember years after encountering the books.” —Anita Silvey


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sa lva dor da lí Deluxe Edition Of Dalí’s Illustrated Alice In Wonderland, One Of 200 Copies Signed By Dalí, With Original Signed Etching And Additional Suite Of Illustrations On Japan Paper 77. (DALÍ, Salvador) CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York, 1969. Large folio (18-1/2 by 13 inches), 16 loose gatherings as issued and an extra suite of the etching and 12 illustrations on Japanese Nacre, two black raw silk portfolios and full tan morocco clamshell box secured with black ivory fore-edge toggles. $25,000. Beautifully printed and illustrated Deluxe Edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, signed by Salvador Dalí on both the title page and the original colored etching, one of only 200 copies, with double suites of the original etching and 12 mixedmedia illustrations, each overprinted with Dali’s remarque. Dalí’s twisting dreamscapes and semi-hallucinatory images superbly complement Carroll’s astonishingly would have been well inventive fantasy (first published in 1865) and exemplify the artist’s entire oeuvre. “Dalí’s images have become icons of the fantastic, signposts (not maps) that at home in the point the way inward to that realm” (Clute & Grant, Wonderland of Alice’s 246). Plates and text fine, minor restoration to original box and straps. A fine copy of this impressive producreverie.” —Luke Carstens tion, most desirable with the signed etching.

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rock w ell k en t / her m a n melv ille “His Best-Known Contribution To Popular American Culture”: Rockwell Kent’s Moby Dick 78. (KENT, Rockwell) MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick or The Whale. Chicago, 1930. Three volumes. Quarto, original black cloth, acetate dust jackets, aluminum slipcase. $16,000. Limited first edition of Rockwell Kent’s masterpiece and one of the most famous American illustrated books of the 20th century, one of only 1000 copies, with 280 magnificent illustrations by Kent, many full-page, in original aluminum slipcase. Spurned by critics and readers when published in 1851, Melville’s Moby Dick resurfaced in the 20th century as one of America’s greatest novels—due in no small part to this edition. Kent not only provided the illustrations but also designed this landmark edition. “His energy, many-sided activities and preoccupation with integrated book design made him one of the best known American illustrators” “Heralded by various critics as (Harthan, 247). His prior experiences as a ship’s carpenter; his explorations of the waters about Tierra del Fuego in a small boat; his sojourns in Newfoundland, the greatest book arts work ever Alaska and Greenland—these varied experiences all contributed to Kent’s achievement here, “his best-known contribution to popular American culture. In produced in the United States.” black and white, he created a universe of emblems and symbols that incorporated —Eliot Stanley Collection elements of both realism and abstraction… Kent observed: ‘Moby Dick is a most solemn, mystic work, with the story and the setting serving merely as the medium for Melville’s profound and poetic philosophy. Each chapter is in itself a poem, and should be presented with all the separate distinction and dignity possible’” (Wien, 134). Rockwellkentiana, 62. The Artist and the Book 140. Books fine; light wear to scarce acetate dust jackets, with closed tears to the top rear panel of Volume III dust jacket. A fine copy.


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jack k erouac “Because The Only People For Me Are The Mad Ones”: Lovely First Edition Of On The Road

“Mr. Kerouac serves up the great, raw slices of America that give his book a descriptive excitement unmatched since the days of

79. KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. New York:, 1957. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $11,000. First edition of Kerouac’s second and most important novel, “a physical and metaphysical journey across America.” A lovely copy in scarce colorful dust jacket.

“Between 1947 and 1950, Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac took off on a Thomas Wolfe… On the Road freewheeling journey through the USA and Mexico in search of something outside their domestic experience. Ten years later their adventures were related in On the Road… The novel’s composition has become a well-known is a stunning achievement.” anecdote in its own right. Returning home from his wanderings, Kerouac —Books of the Century spent almost a year pondering how (specifically, in what form) he might convey the life he had been living. Several false starts were made, but in April 1951 he fed a 120-foot roll of teletype into his typewriter, typed for three weeks and the result, largely unrevised, was On the Road” (Parker, 339). “Just before Jack Kerouac died in 1969, he told Neal Cassady that he feared he would die like Melville, unknown and unappreciated in his own time… On the Road has become a classic of the Beat Movement with its stream-of-consciousness depiction of the rejection of mainstream American values set in a physical and metaphysical journey across America” (Book in America, 136). Bruccoli & Clark I:217. Book fine; lightest edge-wear to bright about-fine dust jacket, with slight traces of color restoration. A beautiful copy.


ja mes joyce Beautiful First Edition Of Joyce’s Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 80. JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York, 1916. Octavo, original blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $16,000. First edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, published in New York against numerous attempts to remove “offending passages”—a defining moment in the history of free expression and the emergence of the modern novel.

“I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of

New York publisher B.W. Huebsch was the only publisher “venturesome enough in 1916 to publish Joyce’s [novel] unexpurgated… In England, 12 publishers had refused my soul the uncreated to set [it] up the way Joyce wrote it, and Harriet Weaver, who had published parts of the work serially in her avant-garde magazine The Egoist, would not go along with conscience of my race.” Ezra Pound’s proposal that blank spaces be left and, after printing, the offending —James Joyce passages be filled in with a typewriter. The difficulty was exacerbated because, as everyone knew, only a year earlier, in England, the entire edition of D.H. Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow had been destroyed by the police. Publishers and printers on both sides of the Atlantic were intimidated” (de Grazia, 18). The novel was not published in England until 1917. Without extraordinarily rare dust jacket. Slocum & Cahoon A11. Bookseller ticket. Only mild toning to spine and slightest rubbing to extremities. A beautiful nearly fine copy, rarely seen in such wonderful condition.


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dav id hu me Hume’s Monumental History Of England: Beautiful Uniformly Bound Quarto Set Of First Editions 81. HUME, David. The History of Great Britain. Edinburgh and London, 1754-62. Six volumes. Quarto, period-style full mottled brown calf gilt. $12,500.

“Long a standard textbook… it is the first history to present social and literary events as at least as important as political and military.” —Kunitz & Haycraft

First editions of Hume’s monumental history of England, uniformly bound. “David Hume may be regarded as the acutest thinker in Great Britain of the eighteenth century, and the most qualified interpreter of its intellectual tendencies” (DNB). His renowned History of England “has a distinct place in the literature of England. It was the first attempt at a comprehensive treatment of historic facts, the first to introduce the social and literary aspects of a nation’s life as only second in importance to its political fortunes, and the first historical writing in an animated yet refined and polished style” (Britannica). Hume decided not to expand his history beyond the Stuarts, partly because he doubted whether he (or his readers) “could maintain partiality concerning recent events” (Jessop, 27). Altogether, Hume’s History “promises ever to hold a prominent place in the front rank of English literature” (Allibone, 916). Jessop, 27-33. Todd, 196-199. Interiors fine, with only sparsest foxing. A fine set of this classic work.

da niel gir aud elliot “As Magnificent As The Birds They Portray”: Elliot’s Great Work On The Birds Of Paradise, With 36 Stunning Hand-Colored Double-Elephant Folio Lithographic Plates 82. ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud. A Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise. London, 1873. Double elephant folio (18-1/2 by 23-1/2 inches), contemporary full green morocco gilt, custom cloth clamshell box. $82,000. First edition of Daniel Elliot’s great work on the Birds of Paradise, with 36 fine hand-colored lithographic plates by Joseph Wolf, colored by J. D. White. The finest copy we have seen. Elliot’s Birds of Paradise contains some of the most celebrated bird illustrations ever produced. S.P. Dance has described Wolf and Smit’s plates “as almost as magnificent as the birds they portray, the fruits of Elliot’s considerable wealth, Wolf’s great artistry and both men’s profound knowledge and love of birds,” and Elliot’s own contribution as patron and author has been recognized as just as vital to the success of the work as that of his artists. Joseph Wolf (1820-99) “was undoubtedly the finest wildlife painter of the Victorian era. His art broke the mold of conventional animal portraiture and entered new territory by depicting nature as itself. He painted animals in their natural habitats, considered their points of view and revealed their moods and behaviors—allowing the viewer to glimpse the reality of the everyday lives of the hunters and hunted” (Jane Mainwaring). With dedication leaf and list of subscribers. Anker 131. Dance, 132. Fine Bird Books, 95. Nissen IVB: 296. Wood, 331. Zimmer, 207. Bookplate of noted Boston collector and philanthropist Charles Goddard Weld. Plate 19 with tiny marginal tear mended on verso. A magnificent copy in fine condition with extraordinarily vibrant original hand coloring. A splendid volume.

“The rarest and finest of all Elliot’s ornithological works.” —Frederick Gallatin


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“As Valuable As It Is Amusing,” “The First English Handbook On Continental Travel”: First Edition Of Coryate’s Crudities, 1611, With Six Woodcut Plates 83. CORYATE, Thomas. Coryats Crudities. Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells. London, 1611. Octavo, late-19th century full brown paneled morocco gilt. $32,000. Rare first edition of the legendary traveler Thomas Coryate’s “lively and informative” account (Baugh et al., 623) of his prolific travels through the major cities of 17th-century Europe, “the first English handbook on continental travel,” long coveted by collectors, illustrated with six woodcut plates (two folding), handsomely bound by Bedford. “Thomas Coryate (1577?-1617) studied but did not take a degree at Oxford; [of small stature], he eventually he became a kind of jester in the court of James I, where his learning and wit brought him a small income… Coryate probably acquired some property after his father’s death, which allowed him to embark on a tour through Europe in 1608. He visited forty-five countries in five months and produced a journal of his travels… the first English handbook on continental travel” (Kaplan, The Merchant of Venice). Coryate traveled, by his reckoning, some 1,975 miles, most of which he covered by foot, Coryate found it difficult to find a publisher for his account, so “he applied to every person of eminence whom he knew, and many whom he can scarcely have known at all, to write commentary verses upon himself, his book, and his travels, and by his unwearied pertinacity and unblushing importunity contrived to get together the most extraordinary collection of testimonials which have ever been gathered in a single sheaf. More than sixty of the most brilliant and illustrious literati of the time were among the contributors to this strange farrago, the wits vying with one another in their attempts to produce mock heroic verses, turning Coryate to solemn ridicule. Ben Jonson undertook to edit these amusing panegyrics, which actually fill 108 quarto pages [of the book]… It was the first, and for long remained the only, handbook for continental travel” (DNB). With all plates: elaborately engraved title page by William Hole (often lacking), full-page armorial woodcut, and four more woodcut plates (including two folding); also with decorative woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. STC 5808. Title page skillfully mounted. Usual soiling on letterpress title, mended tear in leaf R8 entering but not obscuring text. Light rubbing to front joint. A lovely copy in excellent condition.


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a lv in l a ngdon cobur n “Triggered The Final Push Towards Photographic Modernism”: Coburn’s 1909 Landmark First Book Of Photography, London, With 20 Hand-Pulled Gravure Plates Created By Coburn Himself 84. COBURN, Alvin Langdon. London. London and New York, 1909. Folio (12-1/2 by 16 inches), original paper boards rebacked, custom chemise and clamshell box. $35,000. First edition of Coburn’s first, groundbreaking photobook, an elegant folio production of 20 hand-pulled platinum-toned gravure plates tipped onto rich gray paper, each prepared by Coburn himself, representing a revolutionary “transition from pictorialism to modernism… a shift in attitude that triggered the final push towards photographic modernism” (Parr & Badger).

“Coburn had one foot in the

Poised at a crucial turning point in the history of photography, representing the “transition from pictorialism to modernism, from 19th- to 20th-century the 20th. At their best, his pho- photography,” the work of Alvin Langdon Coburn illuminates “the concern of the more advanced pictorialist with ‘modern’ subjects, namely the 20th-century city—a tographs straddled the divide.” shift in attitude that triggered the final push towards photographic modernism” (Parr & Badger I:74). Having learned how to print photogravures at London’s School —Roth, The Book of 101 Books of Photo-Engraving, Alvin Coburn sought to perfect the process by setting up his own copperplate printing presses. London, his magnificent first book of photography, features “20 luscious hand-pulled photogravures with black edges, tipped in on heavy gray marbled paper. Coburn made all of the gravures himself: etching on various papers until he got the print he wanted, and then supervising the entire print run” (Roth, 38). “Coburn used the transitory medium of photography to displace time, to arrest and thereby eternalize the current moment” (Roth, 6, 38). With introduction by Hilaire Belloc. Without extremely scarce original dust jacket. Open Book, 50. Plates and text fine. Light expert restoration to boards. A beautiful copy of an impressive and important production.

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robert fr a nk “The Most Renowned Photobook Of All”: Scarce First Edition Of Les Américains, Twice Signed By Robert Frank 85. FRANK, Robert. Les Américains. Paris, 1958. Oblong octavo, original pictorial boards, custom clamshell box. $22,000. First edition, signed by Frank on both the half title and on the title page of his timeless masterpiece—no photobook “has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized” (Parr & Badger), with 83 full-page photogravures.

“None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than

Frank’s masterpiece.” “From April 1955… to June 1956, Robert Frank made a number of short trips out from New York and one long (nine-month) journey to the West Coast in a 1950 Ford —Parr & Badger to photograph America. From the more than 20,000 images that resulted, Frank eventually chose 83 of them and arranged them into four chapters… ‘With these photographs,’ he later wrote, ‘I have attempted to show a cross-section of the American population. My effort was to express it simply and without confusion. The view is personal…’ Such a simple intention for a book that would so alter the course of modern photography” (Roth, 150). This is the first edition, published in Paris, with accompanying texts in French selected by Alain Bosquet. Frank’s Américains eventually achieved legendary status as “the most renowned photobook of all… It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers… Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank’s masterpiece” (Parr & Badger I:247). As issued without a dust jacket. Copies signed by Frank are exceptionally rare. Images and text fresh and clean, inner hinge starting but sound, boards with only lightest soiling, none of the usual wear to spine ends. A scarce near-fine signed copy.

Index


100 A

ANTOINETTE, Marie 2–3 AUDUBON, John James 39

B

BACON, Francis 24 BARRIE, J.M. 42 BECKETT, Samuel 84 BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van 77 BLACKSTONE, William 45 BONAPARTE, Napoleon 2–3 BRACTON, Henrici de 44 BURTON, Robert 65

C

CAMUS, Albert 82 CARROLL, Lewis 90 CERVANTES 75 CHAUCER 36 CHURCHILL, Winston 11, 15 COBURN, Alvin Langdon 98 Constitution 23 CORYATE, Thomas 97

H

HAKLUYT, Richard 50 HAMILTON, Alexander 21 Hebrew Bible 59 HENNEPIN, Father Louis 68 HOBBES, Thomas 35 HOMER 73 HUME, David 94

J

JAY, John 21 JEFFERSON, Thomas 16–17 JOHNSON, Samuel 5 JONSON, Ben 72 JOYCE, James 93

K

KENT, Rockwell 91 KEROUAC, Jack 92 KEYNES, John Maynard 30 KING Jr., Martin Luther 14

L

ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud 95

LEE, Henry 27 LEE, Robert E. 13, 27 LEWIS & CLARK 69, 70–71 LEWIS, C.S. 89 LINCOLN, Abraham 16–17 LIVERMORE, Jesse L. 28 LIVY 62

F

M

D

DALÍ, Salvador 90 DODD, David L. 31

E

FITZGERALD, F. Scott 80 FLAUBERT, Gustave 87 FLEMING, Ian 81 FOX, John 37 FRANKLIN, Benjamin 22 FRANK, Robert 99 FREEMAN, Douglas Southall 13

G

GASS, Patrick 69 GIBBON, Edward 57 GONDI, Jean François 2–3 GRAHAM, Benjamin 31 GRAHAME, Kenneth 88

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo 63 MADISON, James 21 MALTHUS, Thomas Robert 34 MARSHALL, John 49 MCKENNEY & HALL 9 MELVILLE, Herman 55, 91 MILTON, John 46 MITCHELL, Margaret 67

N

NABOKOV, Vladimir 86 NAPOLEON 2–3

NEWTON, Isaac 25

P

PAINE, Thomas 26 PATTON, George S. 13 PICART, Bernard 58 PLATO 33, 64 PLINY 56 POPE, Alexander 73 PROUST, Marcel 85

R

RACKHAM, Arthur 42 RAND, Ayn 29 RHODES, James Ford 16–17

S

SHACKLETON, Ernest 61 SHAKESPEARE, William 6–7 SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft 47 SOCRATES 32 STANLEY, Henry M. 60 STAUNTON, George Leonard 51 STEDMAN, Charles 48 STEINBECK, John 66

T

TANNER, H.S. 19 The Federalist 21 TOLKIEN, J.R.R. 43 TOLSTOY, Leo 54 TWAIN, Mark 40–41, 53

V

VONNEGUT, Kurt 83

W

WASHINGTON, George 16, 49 WHITMAN, Walt 79 WILLIAMS, Tennessee 52 WOOLF, Virginia 76

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XENOPHON 32


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