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Bemelmans, Ludwig Watercolor studies of two children and the head of a young woman, signed“Bemelmans”
[N.p, n.d.] Ludwig Bemelmans (1892-1962), Austrian-born American painter and writer, drew on his hotel and restaurant experiences for many of his stories and novels, which he often illustrated with his own sophisticated drawings and watercolors. Although he also wrote for adults, he is perhaps best known for his children's books, notably the Madeline series, one of which, Madeline's Rescue, won the 1954 Caldecott Award. These studies may well be connected with one of the Madeline books Image 9-3/4 x 4-1/2 inches; matted and framed to 17 x 11-3/4 inches overall. . Fine condition
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Hunter, Dard Papermaking in Indo-China
Chillicothe Ohio: The Mountain House, 1947 First edition, #17 of 182 copies signed by the author. "The paper used in printing this edition was made in 1932 in my mill at Lime Rock, Connecticut, the only handmade paper mill in America. The title page device was printed from a woodcut found in Tonkin...". 4to (11 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches). Illustrated with 16 plates and 2 mounted paper specimens. Original quarter red morocco & pictorial boards, bound by Peter Franck, Sherman, Ct. Almost fine. Bookplate
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Gellhorn, Martha Collection of 13 Typed Letters and one Autograph Letter, all signed(“Marty”) to George Brown (“Flash”), who was Hemingway’s and Martha’strainer, tennis partner, and friend
Sun Valley, Idaho, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, and one from Washington, D.C., on White House stationery, oct 18, 1941 - dec. 2, 1946 A fascinating glimpse into the marriage of Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway in this series of letters from the journalist, war-time correspondent, novelist, and, for five years, the third wife of Ernest Hemingway — all but the final letter written while she and Hemingway were together. As George Brown was their most athletic friend — Hemingway’s boxing coach and personal trainer, Martha’s tennis and shooting partner — and her letters are filled with humorous reports of their physical condition, orders for Brown’s rubber reducing pants, etc. “…our weights are fairly okay. I can}t seem to get under 127 and Ernest can’t get under 215…But we are definitelyt out of the stylish stout class, and into the husky category. I wish I were one of those delicate wan women, looking like a piece of transparent paper and able to eat a horse and still apear frail and tubercular…” “…I returned [from Europe] weighing 121 pounds, and feeling slightly more glamorous than Miss Dietrich. After two weeks at home I weigh 123-1/2 but am not going to gain more. Ernest on the other hand looks exactly like Toto the Gorilla, and weighs about 230 I think and that, plus his flowing white beard, has made him into a phenomenon…” And again: “Ernest has a black and white beard and looks like Moses if Moses had been a seagoing man, and he weighs 234 pounds. He is so big around the middle that he has allmosrt gotten out of the human into the whale class…It is of course ghastly for him to weigh so much but I don’t know what to do about it; the only way he could lose would be to cut down on liquor and really take exercise and I guess only you can make him do that. And you are not here. So hell…” At one point she speculates on rumors that Hemingway has a mistress: “He is now so sick of Tom Collinses that he has a tendency to be nauseated when he sees anything pale yellow. I see by the gossip columns that Ernest is supposed to have an unknown 19 year old Russian actress down here: he is taking picture of her himself, as a film test for the part of Maria. If she is here, God knows where she is keeping herself. I wish she would get out of the basement or wherever she is living and come upstairs…” (HEMINGWAY, ERNEST) 4to. In all 16pp. Generally very good to fine. With two accompanying envelopes
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Whitman, Walt Wrenching Times
Gwasg, Wales: Gregynog Press, 1991 (GREGYNOG PRESS) No. II of 30 copies on handmade paper and in a special binding. Folio. Ilustrated with colored wood-engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Covers of hand-painted calf representing a pale blue sky, with multi-colored morocco onlays on lower covers forming the imnage of an abstract mountainscape, suede linings. A beautifully crafted book a a superb hand binding. In blue cloth folding box
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Black Chalk on paper heightened in white: Portrait of a Man in His Librarywith quilled pen in hand, library in background
n.p., early 19th century (FRENCH SCHOOL) 11 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (28.6 x 24.2 cm). .
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Kollwitz, Kathe Etching on Paper: “Beim Dengeln. ” Signed "Kathe Kollwitz” lower right inpencil
n.p., 1921 Plate 3 of the Bauernkrieg cycle 8 x 11 inches. . Framed. Klipstein 90 X
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Saroyan, William Archive of Drafts of Letters and Documents relating to Saroyan’sseparation and divorce from his wife CAROL MARCUS, and her affair withcartoonist AL CAPP
[New York], 1949-1950 An important Saroyan archive of essential biographical import. In 1943, Armenian-American author William Saroyan, at the peak of his success and fame, married the 17-year-old socialite Carol Marcus. They had two children, Aram (b. 1943) and Lucy (b. 1946), but by 1949, as this archive painfully documents, the marriage was clearly breaking up. In July, 1949, the couple agreed to separate; in September of that year they divorced; and Marcus, as an important letter here reveals, began an affair will the cartoonist AL CAPP. Eventually, Saroyan and Marcus remarried in 1951, but they quickly divorced again in 1952. This archive contains the following letters and documents relating to the marriage and its break-up: 1. Several typed and carbon drafts of Saroyan’s request for annulment of the marriage, with several autograph corrections and insertions by Saroyan. The essential ground of the complaint was Saroyan’s assertion that Marcus deceived him as to her origins, and pretended to be the daughter of a Catholic couple from Long Island, of Scottish, and French-Russian descent, rather than the illegitimate daughter of a Jewish mother, as she later admitted. 14 pages in all 2. Carbon copy of the separation agreement of July 1949. 6 pages. 3. Draft Typed Letter signed to Al Capp, Jan. 8, 1950. 3pp., with several autograph corrections. 4. Draft of the same letter. 1 page 5. Another Draft of the same letter. 1 page. 6. Carbon copy of the final letter to Capp, Jan 8, 1950. 4 pages. A painful and moving letter to Capp regarding Capp’s affair with Marcus, a warning to Capp that Marcus had a psychopathic personality (“she tells lies and believes them, makes false accusations, and lives in a world of fantasy”); and his belief that Capp is “wittingly or unwittingly helping this woman to plunge deeper and deeper into a life of fantasy which must eventually bring her to the urgent need of hospitalization, and to her children terrible suffering and heartache …”) Carol Marcus later married the actor Walter Matthau; Aram Saroyan became a writer in his own right; and Lucy Saroyan became an actress 4to. In all, 29 pages.
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Thacker, John The Art of Cookery. Containing above Six Hundred and Fifty of the mostapprov'd receipts heretofore published
Newcastle upon Tyne: I. Thompson, 1758 John Thacker, “cook to the Honourable and Reverend the Dean and Chapter in Durham,” excuses himself for writing another cookery book on the grounds that those already available were “far short of being generally useful, especially in these Northern parts, where the seasons occasion such alterations in the Bills of Fare for each month, from those calculated for the Southern parts; some being fill’d with receipts quite foreign to the purpose, as for beautifying washes, &c. others stuff'd with ragoos, and other dishes à-la-mode de France as they call them; in which the mixture of spices is so great, and the expence so extravagant, that it frightens most people from using them.” (Preface). Thacker opened a cookery school in Durham in 1742 First edition. 8vo. 9 woodcuts in text. pp. [16], 322, [30] bills of fare. Full red morocco. Bitting p. 458 (citing a 1762 edition); Cagle 1019; Maclean p.140
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Lamb, Charles Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the Use of Young Persons
London: Thomas Hodgkins, 1807 Beautiful set of the classic which the Lambs set about writing at thesuggestion and encouragement of of William Godwin, who hired Tho,as Hodgkins to run The Juvenile Library on his behalf. The Lambs’ prose adaptations (Charles did the tragedies, Mary the comedies) were written primarily for the benefit of girls, for, as they state in the Preface, “boys are generally permitted the use of their fathers’ libraries at a much earlier age than girls are, they frequently have the best of Shakespear by heart, before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book..’ The result was, according to the Cambridge History of English Literature, “the first book which, appealing to a general audience and to a rising generation, made Shakespeare a familiar and popular author…” First Edition, first issue, with the T. Davison imprint on the verso of p. 235 of Volume 1, and the earlier address of Hanway Street on the ads in Volume 2. 2 vols., 12mo. 20 engraved plates after drawings by Mulready, including frontispieces; 3pp. of ads at rear of second volume. Full crushed blue by Rivière, gilt fillet borders, spines in 6 compartments, richly gilt and lettered, gilt dentelles, blue marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Fine set. Roff/Livingston, pp. 61ff
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Menzel, Carl August Façaden von Stadt- und Landhäusern nebst Architektonischen Entwürfen zurVerschönerung der Höfe, zu öffentlichen Gebäuden, Kirchen, Thoren,Brücken, öffentlichen Brunnen, Grab-Monumenten, Wacht-Gebäuden, u. s.w.Erster Band. Erstes bis zwölftes Heft [with] Dreizehntes bis SechszehntesHeft. [Parts 1-16 of 30 published]
Berlin: bei Ludwig Wilhelm Wittich, 1830 [i.e., 1828-1831] Menzel was a royal building inspector and honorary member of the Verein zur Beförderung der Landesverschönerung in Wittenberg. These finely engraved plates offer a wide-ranging perspective on contemporary architectural theory and practice in early nineteenth-century Germany. In addition to the ornamental façades that give the work its title, the plates depict a broad spectrum of buildings (often with detailed floor plans), including a public library, theaters, churches, city gates, city buildings, a wine country house, princely tombs, hunting lodges, and numerous country residences of varying degrees of grandeur (ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENTATION) Oblong Folio (14 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches). Complete with title-leaf, 12 parts each with a leaf of descriptive text & plates numbered 1-107 & 94a, Parts 13-16 with plates numbered 107-143. Contemporary portfolio with original printed wrapper pasted to upper board, dated in pencil 1826. Some marginal soiling, Seventh Heft with stain to upper corner (plates 57-63), loss of corner margin in plates 142- 143, sporadic foxing, else fine. Not in Berlin; not in OCLC
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Millais, W.R., Arthur Acland HOOD, J.G. MILLAIS, et al The Gun at Home and Abroad. British Game Birds and Wildfowl (Vol. I).British Deer and Ground Game, Dogs, Guns, and Rifles (Vol. II). The BigGame of Africa and Europe (Vol. III). The Big Game of Asia and NorthAmerica (Vol. IV)
London: The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, 1912-1915 Truly encyclopedic in its scope, TheGun at Home and Abroad encompasses all aspects of shooting, from stag hunting technique and statistics to tips on burning grouse moors in autumn to accounts of African big game hunts that blend solid observation with colorful anecdote. A lavishly produced and richly informative work documenting the sporting life of a bygone era, from the distinguished library of a sportsman whose family maintains one of the legendary Adirondack hunting camps (BIG GAME) First Editions, No. 326 of five hundred sets. 4 vols., Large 4to. Photogravure frontispiece of King George V in each volume. With 59 colored plates and 5 monochrome plates after G. Lodge, A. Thorburn, V. R. Balfour-Browne, and E. Caldwell; 8 tinted photogravures; 206 black-and- white plates (chiefly halftone); most with captioned tissue guards. Numerous illustrations and tables in text. Title pages printed in red and black, chapter initials printed in red. Original brown pebbled morocco, stamped in gilt, t.e.g., rest uncut. Bookplate of Edward Sands Litchfield. Fine Copy. Litchfield p. 74
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Da Vinci, Leonardo A Treatise of Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci. Translated from the originalItalian … to which is Prefix'd, the Author's Life
London: J. Senex, and W. Taylor, 1721 Leonardo da Vinci, whose profound curiousity and richly original intellect led him to pursue a variety of activities, embodies the characteristic ideals of the High Renaissance. The influential Treatise of Painting was composed in the 1480s, when he was at the height of his powers; it was first edited posthumously from his writings and notes dealing with the subject, and published in France in the mid-seventeenth century (1651). Compiled from various manuscripts in the Barberini Library, edited by Raphael Dufresne. The Treatise stands as one of the first attempts to treat painting as a science governed by fundamental laws and is ONE OF THE LANDMARK WORKS OF THE RENAISSANCE First Edition in English. 8vo. Title page printed in red and black. With engraved frontispiece portrait of the artist and 35 engraved plates (4 folding). [16], 189, [16, index], [3, ads] pp. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with red spine label. Some wear to tips; scattered fine pencil marks in text, else a fine bright copy
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Denslow, W[illiam] W[allace] Original drawing of Mary and her Lamb, from Denslow's Mary Had a LittleLamb, ink on paper, inscribed “To Mr. E.F. Strickland with best wishesfrom W.W. Denslow May 8th 1904”, along with the artist's device, in ink
New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1903 This charming, full-page drawing, showing Mary and the Lamb perchedprecariously on the branch of a tree, the Lamb looking definitely apprehensive, was for one of a series of children's books published by Dillingham in 1903. W.W. Denslow (1856-1915) began formal training as an artist at age 14, studying at New York's Cooper Union, and at the National Academy of Design, and his first published work appeared two years later. From there he proceeded to a notable career in commercial art, specializing in book-cover designs, working as a newspaper artist, and for the Roycrofters. In 1896 he became friends with a crockery salesman and occasional verse writer named L. Frank Baum. Theirs was an attraction of opposites--cynical Denslow and sentimental Baum--but they became collaborators and three years later produced Father Goose: His Book. It became the best-selling children's book of 1899. With sales of over 75,000 copies, it was a hard act to top, but in September of the following year the pair published a work that has sold more copies than any other children's story by an American. It was called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Despite the success of Oz, Denslow's subsequent life was not a happy one. He remained productive, but had a falling out with Baum (each man felt he was entitled to the major credit for Oz); domestic and financial problems drove him to drink, his career suffered, and he died in 1915 at the age of 58. No major newspaper published his obituary. Things have changed Drawing image 11 x 8, matted to 15 x 12 overall. Together with an ALS from Denslow to Strickland conveying this drawing, and two prints which Strickland had sent to be inscribed, and the carbon of a verse of thanks from Strickland to the artist. Fine. Greene and Hearn, W.W. Denslow, pp. 183-185
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Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis. Translated by A.L. Lloyd
[London]: Parton Press, 1937 First published in German (Die Verwandlung) in 1915. “Born in Prague of German-Jewish parents, Franz Kafka told his bizarre tale of nightmarish isolation and entrapment in a detached, almost reportorial style. While critics have interpreted this chilling story variously as a description of despair in a meaningless world, as a reaction to institutional authoritarianism, and as an expression of conflict between the author and his father, its power seems to rest in its resistance to interpretation. W. H. Auden has said of it, ‘Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka would be the first one would think of’” (Books of the Century, 13). First edition in English. Small 8vo. [6], 74 pp. Original blue cloth spine over grey paper boards, with printed label on the upper cover, spine lettered in black. Spine very slightly toned at top and tail of spine. With the rare plain cellophane wrapper, with some loss, but with price on flap. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Poems
London: F.S. Ellis [Printed by Strangeways and Walden, Printers, Castle St. Leicester Sq.], 1870 Rare Large Paper copy, one of 25 printed for private circulation. 8vo. pp. [xi], [i], 282, [283, printer’s imprint]. Original blue grey boards backed with cream paper, printed spine label (cracked). Splits and soiling to spine, else a sound copy in blue cloth drop box by Zaehnsdorf. Tinker 1814; Ashley IV, pp. 131-2; Hayward 283
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Album of 55 exquisitely colored lithographs and watercolor drawings in thestyle of Pompeiian frescoes
[Italian?], c 1850 A superb collection of lovely lithographed images which, in many instances are so delicately and minutely colored as to be indistinguishable from watercolor drawings — and indeed, several of them we believe to be entirely original drawings — each in the stye of the ancient art of Pompeii in its frescoes, geometric mosaics, and ceramics. There are scenes of mythological figures (e.g., a satyr cavorting with a goat); scenes of purely decorative nature, suggestive of Pompeian vase art against a black gloss background; domestic scenes of husband, wife, and children; cupids; pastoral scenes; fish and game; and several images of an openly erotic nature suggestive of the relaxed style of Pompeiian attitudes toward nudity (POMPEII) Folio. Each plate (8-1/2 x 10-1/2, and smaller) is tipped to a larger sheet; two are entirely uncolored, another only partially. Bound together in three quarters red morocco by Pawson & Nicholson, Philadelphia, with their ticket. Rebacked in goatskin, original spine laid down, inner hinges reinforced with period cloth
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Collection of Haitian Presidential autographs, comprising autograph andpartly printed Documents on Executive stationery, Signed by elevenPresidents of the Republic of Haiti from Alexandre Pétion to PhilippeSudre Dartiguenave
most Port-au-Prince, 1812-1916 An outstanding collection of Haitian material comprising items signed by 11 presidents: 1) ALEXANDRE PETION, president of Haiti 1807-1818. Autograph document signed “Pétion” as president, 6 April 1812, a laissez passer for Mr Douglass, on government business, and noting his white horse “which it is forbidden for whomsoever to touch under any pretext” 2) JEAN- PIERRE BOYER, president of Haiti 1818-1843. Autograph financial document signed “Boyer” as Commander-in-Chief of Port-au-Prince, 30 November 1817, a receipt for 185 gourdes. 3) FABRE GEFFRARD, president of Haiti 1859- 1867. Manuscript letter signed “Geffrard” as President, 3 December 1860, ordering his secretary of state to pay General Simon Sam (see #7 below) the sum of 2,165 gourdes. 4) NISSAGE SAGET, president of Haiti 1870-1874. Manuscript letter signed “Nissage Saget” as President, 11 October 1870, requesting a report on the state of the Arsenal at Cap-Haitien (cellophane tape repair to verso at signature). 5) MICHEL DOMINGUE, president of Haiti 1874-1878. a) Manuscript letter signed “Domingue” as general and provisional commander of the département du Sud, 14 September 1868, promoting second lieutenant Hyppolite (see # 6 below) to full lieutenant. b). Partly printed document, signed “Domingue” as president of the Etat Meridional d’Haiti, 25 January 1869, promoting Prosper Faure to the rank of générale de division. c) Manuscript letter, signed “Domingue” as president of Haiti, 11 December 1874, acknowledging receipt of dispatches from the interim secretary of war. 6) FLORVIL HIPPOLYTE, president of Haiti 1889-1896. a) Manuscript letter signed “F Hyppolite” as générale de division, 14 July 1875, concerning troop inspections. b) Manuscript letter signed “F Hyppolite” as president, 27 January 1896, concerning an appointment to the local police. 7) TIRESIAS AUGUSTIN SIMON SAM, president of Haiti 1896-1902. Manuscript letter, signed “T A S Sam” as president, 12 August 1898, to the secretary of the interior, endorsing a recommendation for a police appointment. 8) FRANÇOIS ANTOINE SIMON, president of Haiti 1908-1911. a) Manuscript letter signed “F.A. Simon” as générale de division, honorary aide de camp to the President, etc., 16 July 1896, to President Tiresias Augustin Simon Sam, concerning a recommendation for Camille Jean-François, acting police commissioner in the Cayes district. b) Typewritten letter, Signed “F.A. Simon” as president, 15 March 1909, conveying a military commission. 9) CINCINNATUS LECONTE, president of Haiti 1911-1912. a) Manuscript letter, Signed “Ctus Leconte” as president, 13 June 1912, concerning a request for police officers’ uniforms. b) Printed broadside, presidential decree dated 16 August 1911, naming the members of his cabinet. 10) MICHEL ORESTE, president of Haiti 1913-1914. Typewritten letter, Signed “Michel Oreste” as president, 4 July 1913, concerning a commercial license for the representative of the Hamburg America Line. 11) PHILIPPE SUDRE DARTIGUENAVE, president of Haiti 1915- 1922. Typewritten letter, signed “Dartiguenave” as president, 1 April 1916, concerning a widow’s pension. With four additional Haitian items: a) a partly printed receipt for import duties paid by Capt Taylor of the American brig Pegasus, 6 November 1827, signed Lavartida, on letterhead of the National Treasury of Santo-Domingo; b) printed broadside with vignette headed “Liberté ou la Mort”, decree of the provisional government concerning the rental of properties held by the nation, 10 May 1843, following the overthrow of president Boyer c) Autograph letter from générale de division Antoine Jeanty 27 November 1880, to the secretary of war; d) partly printed consular document, Amsterdam, 16 December 1929, concerning bills and manifests for a cargo ship. An impressive and representative collection of Haitian leadership from the earliest years of the Republic’s independence through the U.S. invasion of 1915. (HAITI) Chiefly 4to, one broadside Folio. 20 items, single sheet printed letterhead or partly printed documents, accomplished in ink dated and signed, with two printed broadsides. Some toning or soiling and marginal chipping (large broadside split along fold), overall very good
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Hennessey, Tom Original Pencil Drawings for ‘Angling for for Atlantic Salmon’ by ShirleyE. Woods 1976
n.p., 1976 A beautiful album of the original drawings for Angling for Atlantic Salmon by Shirley E.Woods (Angler’s & Shooter’s Press, 1976) Oblong Folio. 27 pencil drawings on 15 sheets, comprising 11 full-page drawings signed by the artist and 16 1/4-page drawings titled in pencil, each sheet mounted in a larger folio leaf, with a title leaf in ink in the hand of author Shirley E. Woods. Bound in dutch linen, leather labels on spine and front board. In matching linen covered slipcase. Fine. With a fine copy of the published book in slipcase, one of 990 copies signed by the author and artist
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Burton, Sir Richard F. & Isabel [Caption title:] Three Months at Abbazia
n.p., august 4, 1888 Separate printing of this account of the Austrian Riviera town on the gulf of Fiume (now Opatija). From the comfort of a well appointed hotel in Varese, Burton recounts with some asperity the inconveniences endured as they stayed in the Hotel Stephanie during three months when the “pestiferous wind,” the Scirrocco blew. “We proceed to satisfy you , under the conviction that only your excellent paper would print the truth about a place which spends so many florins in advertizing itself and in silencing the unpleasant voice of truth.” Penzer: “VERY RARE.” Reprinted from the "Vienna Weekly News.". 12mo. 20 pp. Some external soiling, old reinforcement along spine. Penzer p. 241, calling mistakenly for 22 pp. Not in British Library, microfilm only in OCLC. Penzer notes a copy among Lady Burton’s books at Camberwell
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Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men
New York: Covici-Friede, [1937] First Edition, first issue, with the nine words present on p. 9 andwith “bullet” on page 88 between the 8s. 8vo. 186 pp. Original cloth. Fine in unclipped fine dust jacket. Goldstone and Payne A7a
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Burke, Edgar Gouache of male and female mallard ducks flying over marshland, sky andclouds in the distance
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1929 Edgar Burke, MD (1889-1950) successfully combined the vocation of medicine (he was a member of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons) and the avocation of sport. He was an enthusiastic wildfowler and upland gunner, and expert angler and fly tyer (he designed the flies “Doctor Burke” and ”Family Secret”) and was interested in pigeon racing and cock fighting (it was he, in the Jersey City cock-fights of the 1930s, who sewed up the wounds of the injured birds). He was also a celebrated sporting artist, illustrating two Derrydale Press classics, Feathered Game (1929)--such as the example offered here--and Upland Game Bird Shooting in America (1930), and producing front cover vignettes for seven more, including Grouse Feathers, and De Shootinest Gent'man. He was, notes Siegel, a childhood companion and lifetime friend of Derrydale proprietor Eugene Connett--a relationship that paid large dividends for readers of the Press. A UNIQUE AND BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL DUCK GOUACHE FOR THE DERRYDALE PRESS CLASSIC "FEATHERED GAME" First edition. Image 10 x 7 inches, matted and framed to 15-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches overall. Signed lower left "Edgar Burke 1927". The drake is the original painting of the illustration for "The Mallard" section of Connett's Feathered Game from a Sporting Journal. Fine condition. Siegel pp. 192-3 and No. 24
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[Collection of 18 European Medical Dissertations, 1689-1734, on HungarianWine, Diabetes, Nitre, Gall Stones, Dysentery, etc. ]
V.p., chiefly Basel and Leiden, 1689-1734 Choice compendium of medical writings, from the library of Dr. Ernst L. Wynder, co-author of the first large-scale study of smoking and lung cancer (JAMA 143:329) and founding editor of Preventive Medicine. Contents: 1. Harder, Christoph, 1686-1748. Dissertatio chymico-medica de nitro ejusque natura & usu in medicina ... Basel, Literis Jacobi Bertschii, 1708. 2. Vorster, Franz Sebastian, 1666-1738. Experimenta de pleuro peri pneumonia epidemica cum polypo cordis ... Basel, Typis Jacobi Bertschii, 1689. 3-4. Lavater, Joh. Rodolph. Nosographiae anhelantium pars prior [-posterior]. Basel, Typis Friderici Lüdii, 1714-5. (By the father of Lavater the physiognomist). 5. Hofer, Johann, 1669-1752. Disputatio medica inauguralis de hydrope uteri ... Basel, Typis Jacobi Bertschii, 1689. 6. Komáromy, János Péter, 1692-1761. Dissertatio physico- medica inauguralis de vino Hungarico Soproniensi ... Basel, Typis Friderici Lüdii, 1715. 7. Hermann, Johann Heinrich. Disquisitio medica inauguralis de hypercatharsi, crebo illo agyrtarum impune ubivis medicantium in corporis hominum producto ... Basel, Typis Friderici Lüdii, 1715. 8. Harley, Andreas. Dubitatio medica de methodo docendi medicinam mathematica ... Basilae, typis F. Lüdij, 1714. 9. Werther, Georg Christian. Dissertatio medica de abortu salubri ... Lipsiae, Typis Haeredum Brandenburgerianorum, 1707. 10. Sartorius, Friedrich. Dissertatio medica, de arte naturae aemula ... Lipsiae, Literis Fleischerianis, 1704. 11. Philippi, Johann August. Dissertatio medica de medicamentorum chymicorum et Galenicorum praepollentia dubia. Lipsiae, Literis Brandenburgerianis, 1706. 12. Segner, Johann Michael. Dissertatio inauguralis medica de principum militiam sequentium tuenda valetudine ... [Jenae, Litteris Mullerianis,] 1734. 12A: [Drop title:] Mercedem meritam cum dat tibi … [Latin diploma for Segner, with verses]. 13. Löber, Emanuel Christian, 1696-1763. Disputatio medico-practica sistens plethorae naturam ortum atque effectus ... [Jenae], Christoph. David. Werther, 1728. 14. Lankers, Abrahamus. Dissertatio medica inauguralis de diabete ... Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Isaacum Severinum, 1720. 15. Koch, Lotharius. Disputatio medica inauguralis de colica … Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Abrahamum Elzevier, 1704. 16. Scherb, Johann Georg. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de calculo in receptaculo chyli, hydropis causa ... Lugduni Batavorum, Ap. Conradum Wishoff, 1729. 17. Schuyl, Nicolaus. Dissertatio medica inauguralis de dysenteria ... Leiden, Ap. Ioahennem a. Kergkhem, 1728. 18. Hammerer, Johann Andreas. Dissertatio inauguralis medica de necessitate artis medicæ ... Halæ Magdeburgicæ: Typis Christiani Henckelii, Acad. Typogr., 1712 8vo. Pp. [26]; [24]; 58; [16]; 40; 24; 20; 36; [36]; 60; 46, [4]; 24; 23; 34, [6]; 28, engraved plate, [4] ; 22, [1]; 32. Contemporary half vellum and marbled boards. Some minor soiling, generally very good. 14: Heading shaved throughout, E2v-E4 with partial loss of first lines. 17: Title leaf soiled and edgeworn, folded (NLM copy imperfect: t. p. closely trimmed with loss of imprint). 18: loosely inserted. Six titles with single location in OCLC (NLM: 2,10,14, 16, Univ. of Mich: 8); no. 15 not in OCLC; most others located only in NLM & Wellcome. No. 6 not in Simon
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Prisse d’Avennes, A. E., and James Augustus St. John Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes and Modes of Life in The Valley ofthe Nile. Illustrated with Designs Taken on the Spot , By E. Prisse. WithDescriptive Letter-Press by James Augustus St. John
London: James Madden, 1851 (EGYPT) Second Edition. Folio. With 30 handcolored lithographs. Lacking frontispiece portrait of George Lloyd. [vi], 60 pp. Later red buckram. Plates bound out of order, two plates with marginal repairs, one plate with two-inch closed tear entering into image background, some marginal soiling of plates and text leaves. Atabey 1001 (for 1848 ed.); Blackmer 1357; Hilmy II, p. 142; Not in Abbey
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Bronte, Charlotte Shirley, A Tale
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1849 First Edition. 3 vols., 8vo. . Bound in 3/4 brown morocco, gilt spine, original cloth covers and spine bound in
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Doran, [John] "The Majesties' Servants" Annals of the English Stage from ThomasBetterton to Edmund Kean. Edited and Revised by Robert Lowe
London: John C. Nimmo, 1888 (BINDING) # 203 of 300 printed on fine deckle-edge Royal 8vo paper, with two states of the plates. 10 vols., 4to. Extra-Illustrated. Full crimson morocco by P. B. Sanford, two sets of triple gilt fillet borders and gilt floriated borders on covers, backstrip divided into 6 panels with gilt floral designs and gilt lettering, uncut, t.e.g. gilt floral inner dentelles, silk doublures with floral patterns and matching silk front free endpapers. Fine
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A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Edited by James A.H.Murray, Henry Bradley, W.A. Craigie, C.T. Onions [with:] Supplement
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1888-April 1928; 1933 “The greatest treasure-house of any language in the world, unrivalled for its comprehensiveness and ease of consultation as well as for its reliability and scholarship.” — Printing and the Mind of Man A monumental work, published over a forty-year span, this set bound up in two stages with the final volume unbound as issued (OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY) First Edition. First 9 vols. bound in 12; vol. 10 in 19 fascicles; Suppl. in 1 vol. vols., 4to. . First five volumes in brick red linen, leather labels; vols. 6-9 bound in tan linen, leather labels; vol. 10 in parts (wrappers or printed boards). Some wear to labels, spine of vol. 5 defective at label; fascicles with some wear to wrappers, marginal chipping to wrappers, text fine (largely unopened). Bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge. Supplement in half red morocco, front wrapper bound in. Some rubbing to extremies and shelf wear to supplement. PMM 371
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Gerning, Baron Johann Isaac von A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: withillustrations of the scenes of remarkable events, and of popularTraditions. ..Translated from the German by John Black
London: R. Ackermann, 101, Strand; and sold by the Principal Booksellers in the United Kingdom. Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand, 1820 One of Ackermann’s most breathtaking color plate books — these exquisite views of the Rhine are justly prized for their matchless beauty First Edition, early issue, with the plates unnumbered. Folio (13 1/4 x 11 in.). Embellished with 24 Highly finished and hand-coloured aquatint plates from the Designs of M. Schuetz; and accompanied by a Map. xiv, [2], [1]-178 pp. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt, all edges gilt, rebacked. Corners somewhat rubbed, offsetting from plates to text, slight offsetting from text to plates.Very good, attractive copy. Abbey Travel 217; Martin Hardie, pp. 107-8, 312; Prideaux pp. 337; Tooley (1954), # 234.
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Greenaway, Kate Kate Greenaway’s Book of Games
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1889] A presentation copy, with an impressive, large pen-and-ink drawing of a Greenaway maiden, inscribed “Violet Dickinson from Kate Greenaway 1897.” Violet dickenson was a much valued friend and confidante of Kate Greenaway from 1894, when the two figures, Violet tall and awkward, Kate short and stout, made strong impressions on visits in London society. Violet Dickinson is more often remembered for her intimacy with the young Virginia Woolf. This is an important piece of the Greenaway archive, representative of the artist’s later years. Literature: Rodney Engen, Kate Greenaway. A Biography, 1981, pp. 189ff First Edition. Square 8vo. . Original pictorial boards. Very good copy. Schuster & Engen 43
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Watts, George Frederick Portrait of Austin Dobson
n.p., 1884 21-1/2 x 15 inches. Oil on canvas laid down on canvas by the artist. signed and dated lower right "GF Watts 1884"
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Prevost d’Exiles, Antoine François Manon Lescaut
Paris: Jouaust, 1867 Jules-Adolphe Chauvet was born in 1828. His career as an artist was both varied and successful. He execusted a series of vignettes for various editions of Horace; Erasmus [Eloge de la folie]; Alf [Dictionnaire de la langue verte]; Garnier [Histoire des comtes de Foix]; and for Prevost’s Manon Lescaut. Chauvet was also an important illustrator of Erotica and a contemporary of Felicien Rops. Some of his most notable illustrations were for Casanova. Despite the binding repair this is a most impressive and important artistic document of the period ONE OF TWO COPIES ON VELLUM, and containing the original drawings by Chauvet as illustration. 8vo. Frontispiece and 15 original pen-and-ink and wash drawings on vellum by Jules-Adolphe Chauvet. Full royal blue crushed levant morocco gilt, spine panelled and richly gilt, by Rivière. Front hinge and spine professionally repaired
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Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue “Following the Queen of the Gypsies, Oh!”: watercolor on board, signedwith initials, lower right
n.p, n.d. [ca. 1915] A splendid, colorful rendering, probably for The Book of Old English Songs andBallads, 1915. Eleanor Brickdale (1871-1945) studied at the Crystal Palace School of Art, the Royal Academy schools, and was a pupil of Byam Shaw; she exhibited at the R.A. from 1896. Notes Houfe, “She represents the last phase of Pre-Raphaelitism, her highly detailed and meaningful little pictures are crammed with medievalism and moral sentiment. She was the ideal illustrator of legend…where her bright colours and haughty figures were set off to advantage…She was also a talented stained glass artist and designed windows for Bristol Cathedral.” Image 14-5/8 x 8-3/4 inches; glazed and framed (some frame losses) to 24- 3/4 x 19 inches. . . Houfe, British Book Illustrators, p. 243
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Floyer, Sir John The Prophecies of the Second Book of Esdras Amongst the Apocrypha,Explained and Vindicated from the Objections made against them. To whichare added, a Comment on the Prophecies of Zachary and Micah; with someObservations concerning the Prophecies of Daniel and Malachi... Togetherwith: An Essay concerning the Books commonly called Apocrypha, and thePublick Reading of them in the Church. By a Lover of Truth
London: Printed for Mich(ael) Johnson, Bookseller in Lichfield & Printed for J. Noon, 1721 & 1740 With a note on endpaper "this scarce and little known volume is interesting and even valuable (within its own sphere) in itself: but it fathers an added interest to my eye from having been printed by old Michael Johnson of Lichfield [sic], father of Dr. Johnson --A.B. G.(rosart)". Probably the most famous book published by Michael Johnson (JOHNSON, SAMUEL) First Editions. 2 volumes bound in one vols., 8vo. 166 & 72 pp. Two volumes bound as one, in later half calf binding
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Steinbeck, John Typescript of 25 love poems written to his wife Gwendolyn Conger Steinbeck
N.p., n.d These are Gwyn’s own transcriptions of the love poems written to her by Steinbeck, sent to their good friend Burgess Meredith. It is not clear whether the manuscripts have survived, although Jackson Benson (p. 57) states of the little poetry which Steinbeck wrote, “there is a series of love poems written to his second wife, Gwyn, which has also survived.” 11 x 8-1/2 inches. 25pp. on versos of 25 unruled sheets. Very good. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith. Bound with a cover Typed Letter Signed, 10/30/69, from Shirley McCurry’s secretarial service, to BURGESS MEREDITH, saying: “Dear Mr. Meredith, Gwyn [Steinbeck] asked that we forward the enclosed poems to you. She will send the material to fill in the blanks as soon as she is able to decipher it…”
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Williamson, Captain Thomas Oriental Field Sports, being a complete, detailed, and accuratedescription of the wild sports of the East
London: Printed for H.R. Young, 1819 One of the most interesting color-plate books on Eastern sport; it originated with Williamson's oblong folio edition of 1807. Williamson spent 20 years in Bengal, and his work covers a large amount of sporting-- and other--information Second Edition. 2 vols., 4to. With 40 (of 42) hand-colored plates, mostly aquatints, after Samuel Howitt; lacking the two frontispieces; and lacking the Dedication leaf to George III in volume I. Contemporary black calf, covers with gilt rules and floral devices, panelled spines gilt, inner dentelles, a.e.g., occasional foxing to text and some marginal spotting to plates; leaf S2 of volume II repaired with cellotape. Tooley 510; Schwerdt II, p. 299
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Hilton, James Small Archive of Manuscripts
Various places, various dates [1930's - 50's] An interesting cross section of James Hilton's outputother than novels, spanning three decades, and including the following: a) "Bells and Belles," undated carbon typescript play, 17 leaves plus lettered inserts; b) long, untitled essay, beginning "When I was a publisher's reader in London...," dated 1946 in an unknown hand, 16 (of 17) leaves, with manuscript revisions in later leaves; c) untitled, incomplete essay, beginning "The fact is, we're at a period in world history when something is dying and something else is being born," 4 leaves, typescript, with manuscript revisions; d) carbon typescript review of a production of Galsworthy's JUSTICE, undated, 3 leaves, but accompanied by a retained carbon of a letter to Victor Saville about Galsworthy, Hollywood, 2 January, 1942; e) untitled article (or radio address) on Britain, ca. 1942, 4 leaves, carbon typescript, with minor ms. revision; f) one page typescript for an appeal for the War Chest; g) typescript, with heavy manuscript revisions, of an untitled memoir of Christmas in the UK when Hilton was 13, 6 leaves, undated; h) "Hollywood is Too Modest," undated carbon typescript, 3 leaves, with minor revision; i) "Pay as You Enter," a short story, clean carbon typescript, [1],16 leaves, with directions to printer; j) "The Apple," a short story, original typescript, [1],19 leaves, with a few deletions and a ms. note on the cover leaf, undated; k) untitled essay on Prince Philip, paginated at 44 leaves (with several additional lettered inserts), but wanting leaves 2-5, original typescript, with substantial manuscript revisions, ca. 1952-3; l) untitled, undated essay on the adaptation of literature to film, 4 leaves original typescript, heavily corrected in ink, plus an additional leaf being a revised, and again heavily corrected, draft of the first page; and m) a large file, ca. 300 leaves, of heavily corrected typescripts drafts of untitled plays, including variant drafts, some fragmentary, others complete or near complete, and including a number of instances of the reuse of paper with manuscript for other work by Hilton on the verso, including, for example, a corrected draft of a typescript poem by Hilton, entitled "England : Spain : 1938." Withal, a most interesting and eclectic group of manuscripts Mostly 4to. Typescript and carbon typescripts, some with manuscripts revisions. Generally very good
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Simon, Oliver and Stanley Morison, editors The Fleuron. A Journal of Typography
London: At the Office of the Fleuron [Nos. 5-7 published at the University Press, Cambridge, and atDoubleday Page, New York], 1923 - 1930 One of the most notable journals of typography of the century. Founded by Oliver Simon and Stanley Morison, The Fleuron quickly achieved an international reputation not only for the quality of its articles, with contributions from most the leading typographers, designers, and graphic artists of the time, but also for the quality of its setting and production, with its profusion of illustrations, specimen pages, tipped-in leaves, paper examples, etc. To this day, it remains one of the most delightful and authoritative journals of its kind. An outstanding copy of the scarce deluxe issue. First Edition, Deluxe Issue on Handmade Paper. Most numbered #45. 7 vols., 4to. Abundantly illustrated with type specimens, sample leaves, facsimiles, and plates. Original variously colored cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Number 5 in slightly chipped dust jacket
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Fournier, [Pierre Simon],le jeune Manuel Typographique, utile aux Gens de Lettres, & à ceux qui exercent lesdifférentes parties de l'Art de l'Imprimerie
Paris: Imprimé par l'Auteur, rue des Postes, et se vend chez Barbou, rue S. Jacques, 1764-1766 The first volume discusses the process of type cutting and casting; volume two includes 250 pages of specimens with some 100 devoted to exotic types, 15 to music and more than 30 pages to ornamental material First Edition. 2 vols., 8vo. Two engraved frontispieces, 16 engraved plates, 5 folding leaves of printed music (one printed in red and black). xxxii, 323, [1, errata], [4]; [2], xliv, [2], 306 pp. Modern calf, a.e.g. Faintest touch of rubbing, else fine, bright set. Bigmore & Wyman I, 228; Updike, Printing Types I, p. 260; Audin 55, 56; Birrell & Garnett, 37; Burke Printing Collection 527
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Prosek, James Gyotaku print of two sea trout
Iceland, 2001 25-1/2 x 38 inches. On Japanese rice paper, signed by the artist in pencil,“September12, 2001, Hafralonsa River Iceland, Sea Trout, James Prosek”. Fine
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Rackham, Arthur Ingoldsby Legends:Full figure Witch holding a Broom, ink on paperunfinished
n.p., ca. 1907 9 x 6 inches, matted. . Fine
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Days of the Dandies. Including: Peg Woffington written by J. FitzgeraldMolloy (2 Volumes); Colley Cibber written by Himself (2 Volumes); HoraceWalpole written by Himself (1 Volume); Fanny Burney written by Herself (1Volume); Laurence Sterne written by Percy Fitzgerald (2 Volumes); CharlesJames Fox written by B.C. Walpole ,together with the character of Mr. Foxby R.B. Sheridan (1 Volume); Captain Gronow written by Himself (2Volumes); Mary Wortley Montagu written by Herself (1 Volume); Beau Nashwritten by Oliver Goldsmith (1 Volume); Mrs. Jordan written by JamesBoaden (2 Volumes)
(DAYS OF THE DANDIES) Édition Magnifique. One of 26, Letter "R" . " This copy has been printed and specially bound for M.E. McC. Darlington." Printed on Japan Vellum by the Edinburgh Press. 15 vols., 8vo. All Plates in three states, one hand-colored. Bound in full red morocco, elaborate red morocco dentelles with white interior doublures with Grolier coat of arms, t.e.g. by the Grolier Bindery
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Melville, Herman The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
New York: Dix, Edwards & Co, 1857 Published probably simultaneously with the London edition (see Blanck) -- precedence is unknown. Melville’s brilliant and satirical last novel (apart from the posthumously published Billy Budd). One of the most difficult Melville titles to obtain First Edition. 8vo. . Original purple cloth, faded, small chip from head, original pastedowns replaced and inner hinges reinforced with cloth tape, re-sewn through the outer joints and rather tight in the gutter margins; printed lending library Notice affixed to first page of text, over the drop title. Still, a good, serviceable copy of this very difficult Melville title. BAL 13670
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Johnson, Samuel Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets … With notes corrective andexplanatory by Peter Cunningham
London: John Murray, 1854 Presentation copy to Charles Dickens, INSCRIBED on the half-title: “To Charles Dickens / with the Editor’s kind regards. / 4 January 1855.” A marvelous association 3 vols., 8vo. . Publisher’s purple loth, rebacked, with the original spine (head chipped) laid down, original endpapers preserved. Volume I with the armorial bookplate of CHARLES DICKENS on the front pastedown, and each volume bearing the bookticket “From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870”
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Jackson, Andrew PROCLAMATION BY ANDREW JACKSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. [PrintedBroadside, text begins:] “Whereas, a Convention assembled in the State ofSouth Carolina, have passed an Ordinance… [declaring “unauthorized by theConstitution” and therefore null and void, the acts of Congress imposingduties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities] … Done atthe City of Washington, this 10th day of December, in the year of ourLord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two ... Andrew Jackson. By thePresident: Edward Livingston, Secretary of State."
[Imprint at bottom:] New York: G.F. Hopkins & Sons, Printers and Stationers, 44 Nassau Street, [1832] One of the most important assertions of the supremacy of federal over state law in the early history of the nation, this is Jackson’s famous proclamation in which he denounced nullification as treason and told the people of South Carolina in no uncertain terms that he proposed to enforce the laws of the United States. “... I consider then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.” Of all of the known broadside printings of this important Jackson proclamation, OCLC lists only one printed on silk (U. of NC) of the same approximate dimensions and format as ours -- but without an imprint Folio (29-1/4 x 16-1/4 inches; 80 x 50 cm.). Broadside printed on silk in four columns within ornamental border. Some dampstaining. Framed and glazed. OCLC: 48877946; Not in American Imprints ( but cf. American Imprints 13105 [Washington, DC printing]; cf. Streeter Sale 1738 [idem]
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Merwin, W.S Autograph Manuscript signed and inscribed at a later date (“W. S. Merwin4/23/83 I wrote it a long time ago”), working draft and notes of anuntitled essay on Samuel L. Clemens and HUCKLEBERRY FINN
N.P. [London?], n.d. [1950s] 5pp. folio, one page 8-1/2 x 8 inches. 6 pp. in ink, densely written in Merwin’s small handwriting, on versos of blank “Continuity Report” forms of Parthian Productions Ltd., heavily worked, with numerous corrections and deletions. Very good
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Maaskamp, Evert Afbeeldingen van de Kleeding, Zeden en Gewoontenin de BataafscheRepubliek…[Title and text in Dutch and French]
Amsterdam & London: E. Maaskamp & Colnaghi, n.d. [ca. 1805] Beautifully assembled copy of the firstedition of this exquisite color plate book. It was reprinted c. 1811, with 20 plates (v. Colas 1681), and again in 1823 with 24 plates (Colas 1682), albeit in inferior impressions , according to Colas. The first and second editions are frequently confused, as the Preface to both contains the date 1803; but in the second edition the plates are all dated 1811 (COLOR PLATE) FIRST EDITION, with the plates dated from 1803 to 1805. 4to. Hand-colored frontispiece, and 16 hand-colored engraved plates numbered 1- 16, by Portman after Kuyper; 22 unnumbered leaves of text, plates tipped onto gilt-borded sheets, text leaves inlaid to size. Bound in full red morocco gilt, a.e.g. Rebacked, inner hinges lined with morocco. Colas 1680; Hiler, p. 557
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Kaempfer, Engelbert Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum. Fasciculi V. Quibuscontinentur variae relationes, observationes & descriptiones rerumPersicarum & ulterioris Asiae, multâ attentione, in peregrinationibus peruniversum orientem, collectae
Lemgo: Typis & impensis Henrici Wilhelmi Meyeri, aulae Lippiacae typographi, 1712 The great work oftraveller and scientist Kaempfer, physician to the Dutch East India Company, whose scientific specimens Sir Hans Sloane bought, together with the manuscript History of Japan, published in English in 1727. Notable for its description of the electric eel, acupuncture, and moxibustion. Kaempfer’s systematic description of tea (as well as his other work on Japanese plants) was praised by Linnaeus, who adopted Kaempfer’s nomenclature. Despite this defects noted, an attractive copy of an uncommon work First Edition. 5 parts in one volume vols., Small 4to. Frontispiece, 9 [of 16] folding plates, 73 copper or wood engraved illustrations in text (most full page). Title page printed in red and black. 9 ff., 912 pp., [16] ff. [index, terminal leaf blank]. Late nineteenth century half brown morocco. Lacking dedication leaf with portrait and leaf Qqqq4 (text p. 679/illustration p. 680). Wellcome III, p. 376; Brunet III: 636; Hunt 427; Nissen 1018; Garrison-Morton 6374.11; cf. Exotic Pleasures, Fascicle III, Curious Scientific and Medical Observations by Englebert Kaempfer. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Robert W. Carrubba, Southern Illinois University Press, 1996
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Whitman, Walt Franklin Evans; or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times. By Walter Whitman
New York: J. Winchester, November 1842 Issued as an extra, or supplement, to THE NEW WORLD, Franklin Evans is an “original temperance novel,” preceding LEAVES OF GRASS by thirteen years FIRST EDITION OF WHITMAN’S FIRST SEPARATE PUBLICATION. Small folio. 32pp., including final page of ads. Disbound (or removed) as usual, and rebacked with white paper. Slight usual foxing, a few marginal chips or tears. In cloth slipcase. BAL 21393; Myerson A1.1
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Paine, Albert Bigelow Mark Twain: A Biography
New York: Harper, 1912 Tipped in to Volume Two is an Autograph Letter signed (“S.L. Clemens”), to Miss Annie. 3pp. Small 8vo, Hotel Kaiserhoff, Bad Nauheim, 18 July [ca. 1892]. A good personal letter regretting that he was unable to see her before returning to Europe: “It was too bad! If I had foreseen that I was not going to have an opportunity to call again, I would have marched into the house in spite of the prohibition; I excused you from seeing me only because I supposed I was going to have a chance to run in next day. Many is thae time I have regretted, since, that I didn't make sure of you while I had the opportunity. I will not run that sort of risk again…I also failed to see Dr. Root & Archie Welch. I came away pretty thoroughly disgusted with my flying visit…” Written just after a brief return to Europe where his family was vacationing in Nauheim. It was there in Nauheim that he conceived and began work on Puddenhead Wilson (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L) First Edition. 3 vols., 8vo. Illustrated. Original red cloth
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Brehm, Worth FINE ORIGINAL CHARCOAL SKETCH, A PRELIMINARY DRAWING FOR THE “WHITEWASHINGTHE FENCE” EPISODE IN THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
n.p., ca. 1910 A very interesting drawing indeed, showing Tom, in profile, seated on a barrel with other boys standing by, directing one of a series of his chums who, for a consideration, he has allowed to whitewash the fence: “He had a nice, good, idle time all the while--plenty of company--and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village”. The drawing is a preliminary one--the figure of Tom is well realized, but the others are done in a sketchier manner--evidently for the Harper 1910 edition. This image was subsequently replaced with one showing just Tom and another boy by the fence. A noteworthy drawing, showing how Brehm went about constructing one of his superb illustrations for Twain's classic work Evidently planned for the edition published by Harper & Brothers, 1910. Image size 17 x 12 inches. Matted
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Leech, John (1817-1864) An album of 10 watercolors and pencil drawings
n.p., n.d. Works included are: 1. Title page for "Jolly Fellers", Comic Song Book, in pencil and watercolor, initalled 2. Woman winding a clock, watercolor, signed "John Leech" 3. "A Tramp", watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 4. Gamblers at roulette table, watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 5. "Man throwing brick through a window", watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 6. A man dressing, watercolor, initalled "JL" 7. "Boy with a Hoop", watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 8. Women reading before a fire, pen and ink and watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 9. Apropos of Bloomerism, pencil (see Life and Character, 1st series, p. 69) 10. Roman Pastoral Poetry-1 (couple and dog), pen and ink and watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 6 x 4-3/4 and smaller. . Blue cloth spine and tan cloth
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Portrait of a Lady, oval bust length portrait with wire rim glasses andsausage curls
n.p., c.1840 (PHOTOGRAPHY) 1 3/4"x2" image in gold frame. .
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Webster, Noah Autograph Letter Signed (“N Webster”) to Henry Henrick, newspaper editorin Knoxville, attacking Lyman Cobb
New Haven, oct. 26 1836 Webster thanks Henrick, evidently editor of a newspaper in Knoxville, for inserting Webster’s “Caution” about the pirated Speller circulating in the market, then turning to the career of his arch-rival in the battle over the American Speller, Lyman Cobb. Webster pours out his feelings: “…He is an extraordinary man. His history is shortly thus. He was a poor boy in Lenox, Mass. Mr. Kamlin the printer here was in school with him. He afterwards lived with a Mr. Bosworth of Albany, as a menial, but I am told he was addicted to lying for which he was flogged. He thus ran away & the first thing Bosworth heard form him was, he had made a Spelling Book. It seems he went westward & kept school, then in Walker’s Dictionary adopted his plan of spelling & pronunciation. After he published his Sp Book, he attacked MINE, marked every thing in which I differ from Walker, published a long series of papers against me, first in an Albany paper, then in a pamphlet, which he sent by mail into all quarters. When my Dictionary appeared, he again wrote against me in a New York paper, finding fault with my discrepancies of orthography, published a pamphlet which you have doubtless seen…In his book many plagiarism form my dictionary, as there are in his little reticule.” As for the battle between Cobb’ Speller and Webster’s, according to Morgan in NOAH WEBSTER (1975), p. 190, “Although Cobb did not surrender, he had to fight a long retreat, and Webster’s book ultimately won the war…” 4to. 1-1/2 pp. With integral blank, addressed and postmarked on verso. Minor soiling, remains of seal, old folds; very good. Housed in a custom morocco-backed folding case
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Steinbeck, John Autograph Letter Signed (“John”) to Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard,regarding his new-born son, Tom, his and Gwyn’s plans for their new housein Monterey, and other personal matters
[Monterey, California, november, 1944] UNPUBLISHED letter from the author of THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Recently arrived in Monterey from New York, with Cannery Row completed, his new son Tom only a few months old, and where he had found his new house (The Soto House), Steinbeck, in high spirits, writes his good friends Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard who are expecting their first child: “We're writing Dr. Benaron today about the best man in your area …I'm a believer in a hell of a lot of prenatal inspection. It saves a lot of trouble and can make the difference between a miserable time and a very happy time.…Anyway you'll have fun. Honest Tom, now known as Swine Child, is a lot of fun. We enjoy him all the time. He is very funny and completely unremarkable. Has two eyes, two ears and the proper number of arms and legs. I wonder, by the way, who said that number was proper. Undoubtedly some egotist with two arms and two legs. …Tom's mental age is 11 weeks and he is three months old. This keeps him out of Harvard and the presidency not to mention Time-life. Do you suppose there is a vacancy is the Meglin kiddies. Hemight as well tap dance as just lie around the house. Our new house is one of the nicest of the adobes. Built about 1835, quite small - big living room, two bedrooms, lean-to kitchen and bath and a large garden. After the war we will add a wing in adobe. It is a very pleasant house. I'm sure you will like it. Well probably be in it by next weekend. We're going to have2o do the painting ourselves, but I like doing that. I once was a painter's apprentice for 6 months. Now it is Sunday and a very beautiful day. The rain is over and the earth giveth a good smell. It may take a couple or three days to get a reply from Chicago. Last night some drunks came in. I am getting old I guess. I didn't find them amusing. This is probably a bad thing. Three blimps are just outside off the coast, looking for something from their maneuvers. That's all - will let you know what we find out…” 14 x 8-1/2 inches. 2pp. in pencil, on rectos of two legal-size ruled note sheets. Very good. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith
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Steinbeck, John Typed Letter Signed (“John”) to Burgess Meredith , regarding his plannedtrip to Europe, the premier of the film THE PEARL, the state of politicalaffairs in the U. S., etc
175 East 78th St., New York City, may 6, [1947] A fin, UNPUBLISHED letter from Steinbeck to his close friends Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard, : “We had a little bit of horror the other nlght. The Ratheons [?] gave a little reception at the RitzCarlton for President Aleman of Mexico. The prize bit of this evening was to be the world premier of my picture THE PEARL which I have been making for two years and a half. So they set up a screen and started the picture. First the FBI insisted that a big spot light be kept on the face of Aleman and you had to look at the screen through lt (incidently it made him a perfect target if anyone had wanted to shoot him. Then the power went not off but down enough so that all you could see were some dark shadows moving on a darker screen. It was quite something. Third it was in spanish which not ten eople in the audience understood. You can see that it was one of my greatest personal triumphs. I was sitting ln back but Gwyn says that in the middle of this horror Aleman leaned over and patted me on the shoulder and said, "Now don't you worry. It's going to be all right." Nothing so beautiful has ever happened to me. I am glad to hear that you are both so happy in your work. I have had a kind of a year of frustrations and disappointments, all my own fault but keen nevertheless. Thats one of the reasons I want to get out with some goat herder and vinyardists in the Greek countryside. I guess Milly is working on the Red Pony. I haven't heard anything to the contrary. New York is rainy and pleasant to me. Everythlng is moist and you don't dry out. But there is a dreadful nervousness. Congress just cut off all the state departments revenue for radio and magazines and gave J Edgar Hoover every cent he asked for. That seems to be the trend. Everybody is calling everybody else a communist. A group of Senators is going out to investigate Hollywood and to try to get laid. Louella Parsons has taken a strong stand against communism…” UNPUBLISHED 11-1/4 x 7-1/4 inches. 1-1/2pp. on personal stationery. Slightly waterstaining. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith
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Van Vechten, Carl Portrait Photograph of Billie Holiday
[New York, march 23, 1949 Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN (1978) (HOLIDAY, BILLIE) Approximately 9-1/2 x 7 inches. Vintage gelatin print. With the photographer's embossed stamp in the image and his atelier ink stamp on verso: “Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West /Cannot be reproduced without permission ” and with holograph notes giving subject of the photo, (“March 23, 1949”), and number of the print (III gg.4”). Matted and framed
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[Burke, Edmund] A Philosphical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime andBeautiful
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 Burke’s very scarce fifth publication (if one includesthe disputed AN ACCOUNT OF THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS), and, according to Todd (citing internal evidence) “This would appear to be a rather small edition, possibly like the VINDICATION limited to 500 copies…” First Edition, with half-title. 8vo. [16], 184 pp. Contemporary tan calf, leather spine label. Joints a bit tender, but the binding is sound and the interior