RALEIGH, Walter Brief Memoir of Sir Walter Ralegh (RALEIGH, Walter) DRAKE, Samuel G. A Brief Memoir of Sir Walter Ralegh. Prepared for and Published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for April, 1862. Boston: for the Author, 1862. Quarto, contemporary full brown levant morocco, green polished morocco doublures with elaborately gilt-decorated borders, raised bands, top edge gilt. $9000. First edition, one of ten large-paper copies, this copy extra-illustrated with fine miniatures, several in color, portraits, and contemporary autograph documents. Handsomely bound in full levant morocco by Pratt. With 97 plates, including copper etchings and proof copies. Among the original works of art are a miniature oil portrait of Raleigh by Henry Bone (1755-1834, associate of the Royal Academy and enamel painter to George III, George IV and William IV); two watercolors by "F. W. P."; and an unfinished study drawing of Sir Francis Drake by Chester Harding (1792-1866, portrait painter of prominent Americans). Three original Elizabethan manuscript documents are tipped-in: the first, boldly signed by Ferdinando Gorges, is an "examination of John Marriott late of Farmington... taken before Ferdinando Gorges Knight." Gorges, an intimate of the Earl of Essex, was involved in the "main plot" against James I, when Raleigh warned him against further participation. One of the founders of the New England colonies, he later became the first governor of the Plymouth Colony and the Lord Proprietary of the Province of Maine. These appointments followed earlier attempts by Gorges to "colonise the country... [on] many expeditions for discovery or settlement" (DNB). The second, signed by Edmund Baron Sheffield, records a financial transaction between Sheffield, William Harris, and Sir Arthur Ingram. Sheffield commanded the White Bear, "one of the Queen's ships," in the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and was later a member of the councils of the Virginia Company and the New England Company. The third is an inventory of troops initialed by Thomas Lord Buckhurst, who held various court offices, and who as Lord High Steward presided over the trials of the Earl of Essex and his co-conspirators. The expertly mounted plates range from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Included is a rare early tobacco advertisement entitled "Sir Walter Raleigh and his Man." Forty-four portraits are of Raleigh; others, of his contemporaries, include Spenser, Sir Francis Drake, and Elizabeth I. Sabin 20869. Occasional light foxing to plates but generally clean and bright; autographs very good. An exceptional book, unique among the ten large-paper copies in its inclusion of a fine miniature and original documents and drawings. Price: USD 9,000.00 other currencies   order no. 4315    inquire

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