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The Complete Writ-ings of William Blake

Blake, William; Keynes, Geoffrey. THE WRITINGS OF WIL-LIAM BLAKE. (London: The Nonesuch Press, 1925) 3 volumes. Limited edition of 1500 numbered sets, printed on Vidalon handmade paper at the Chiswick Press. Profusely illustrated throughout with 58 fine full-page plates after Blake’s own ren-derings, frontispiece and additional illustrations throughout. Tall Royal 8vo, publisher’s original marbled boards backed in white vellum, spines lettered in gilt. An unusually pleasing and handsome set, fresh and near pristine and largely unopened internally, the vellum quite clean and well preserved, the

bindings fine and with far less than the normal mellowing, the boards also in very pleasing condition, occasional light evidence of shelving. A FINE AND IMPORTANT SET OF THE BLAKE WRIT-INGS. Printed at The Chiswick Press under the supervision of Francis Meynell. In the three-volume ‘Writings of William Blake’ very little editing was done and variant readings are thus given, to maintain the integrity of the texts and provide a framework for scholarly analysis.

The Very Fine Ashendene Press Spenser - Minor Poems[Ashendene Press] Spenser, Edmund. SPENSER’S MINOR PO-EMS... [and with, the prospectus order form for the Ashendene Spenser’s Faerie Queene]. (Chelsea: The Ashendene Press, 1925) First Edition of the beautiful Ashendene Spenser. One of 200 copies handset in “Subiaco” type. A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE, being a Hornby family copy with autograph presentation letter from a Hornby relation dated 1978, and with the prospectus order form for the Ashendene Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Hand printed in red, blue and black on specially wa-termarked (“knight-in-armour”) Batchelor hand-made paper. Initials by Graily Hewitt. Large Folio, in the original Ashendene

Item Number: 1 Price: $3950.

The Nonesuch Limited Edition - Three Volumes - 1925 Item Number: 2 Price: $1250.

binding of vellum over heavy boards and backed in dark brown calf, lettered in gilt on the spine in compartments separated by exceptionally tall and wide raised bands. Very fine and beauti-ful, an exceptional copy. A REMARKABLE COPY. THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ASHENDENE PRESS PRINTING, A BEAUTIFUL BOOK SET IN THE MOST SPLENDID OF THE ASHENDENE TYPES. SUBIACO TYPE WAS FIRST USED IN THE ASHENDENE DANTE AND IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST BEAU-TIFUL DESIGNED TYPES OF THE ENGLISH FINE PRESS MOVEMENT.

Fine Books and Manuscripts

A Very Fine Autographed Copy of This Riveting ThrillerDan Brown - The Da Vinci Code - First Edition

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY DAN BROWN. “Intrigue and menace mingle in one of the finest mysteries I’ve ever read. An amazing tale with enigma piled on secrets stacked on riddles.” - Clive Cussler. One of the most popular books of the time.

Item Number: 3 Price: $950. Brown, Dan. THE DA VINCI CODE (New York: Doubleday, 2003) First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original decorated dustjacket. A very fine copy, as pristine.

Large Folio - Bound in Vellum and Calf - Subiaco TypeA Copy with Pleas-ing Provenance - A Hornby Family CopyPrinted in Colours on Specially Water-marked Paper


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Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s PilgrimmageExquisitely Bound and Illustrated With Superb Engravings

double gilt fillet rules, elaborate gilt turnovers. A very fine and beautiful copy in a luxurious, very bright and clean. Some very light, quite unobtrusive and only occasional foxing. A SUPERB AND EXTREMELY APPEALING COPY of Lord Byron’s classic poetic work. The poet began writing ‘Childe Harold’ in Albania in 1809 and the first two cantos were issued in 1812. Cantos three and four appeared in 1816 and 1818 respectively. Upon its initial publication in 1812, Byron became instantly famous.



Churchill’s History of the English Speaking PeoplesAn Excellent First Edition Set in Dust-jackets

with some very minor rubbing along the edges and folds. AN IMPORTANT SET OF FIRST EDITIONS. By the beginning of World War II, Churchill had already penned half a million words of this manuscript. Lying dormant through almost six years of war followed by an even longer period in which Churchill wrote his war memoirs, this work finally was brought to fruition in 1956.

Item Number: 8 Price: $795. Churchill, Winston. A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES (London: Cassell and Co, 1956, 57, 58) 4 volumes. First edition of each volume. With numerous maps. 8vo, original crimson cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, in bright, original pictorial dustjacketS. Index in each volume. A very clean and very bright set, the books handsome and fine but for the most trivial evidence of age, the jackets bright and fresh occasionally

The Voyages of Christopher ColumbusFirst Edition of the TranslationOne of the Most Scholarly Histories of Columbus

Item Number: 9 Price: $395. [Columbus] Jane, Cecil. THE VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BEING THE JOURNALS OF HIS FIRST AND THIRD, AND THE LETTERS CONCERNING HIS FIRST AND LAST VOYAGES, TO WHICH IS ADDED THE ACCOUNT OF HIS SECOND VOYAGE WRITTEN BY ANDRES BERNALDEZ. Now newly Translated and Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Cecil Jane. (London: The Argonaut Press, 1930) Limited edition, one of 1050 numbered copies, printed on fine Japanese Vellum. Illustrated with five maps and an original woodcut by William Monk on title page. 4to, publisher’s original grey cloth

A Luminary Known Well by Emin Pasha and Henry StanleyMajor Casati - Ten Years in Equatoria and the ReturnFirst Edition - Publisher’s Original Fine Decorated Cloth

Casati, Major Gaetano. TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA AND THE RETURN WITH EMIN PASHA... (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1891) 2 volumes. Scarce first edition. With roughly 150 illustrations, color plates, and 4 folding maps in pocket at rear of Volume I. 8vo, original patterned brick-red cloth, adorned with lettering in gilt and black on the spines and upper covers, elaborately decorated with all-over pictorial designs stamped in gilt, black and silver on the upper covers. An uncommonly nice and well preserved set, the attractive decorated cloth bright and unfaded with only very minor shelf rubbing or light edge

wear, very small split to cloth at the upper shoulder of Volume I, internally quite near fine, the occasional toning or spotting much less than is typical. SCARCE FIRST EDITION WELL PRESERVED IN ORIGINAL DECORATED CLOTH. This account, taken from his manuscripts and letters, was somewhat late in publication because his early paper had been stolen by King Chua and had to be rewritten from memory and because Casati remained in Africa for some time to nurse the ailing Pasha.

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIM-AGE. A Romance (London: John Murray, 1841) First edition with the illustrations. With 61 very fine engravings on steel and one fold-out map all by W. Finden. Thick 8vo, luxuriously bound by Tout in dark turquoise-blue morocco, the covers and spine with elaborate all over gilt arabesque decorations and corner tooling, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, lettered and richly gilt designs, edges with

backed in white vellum gilt lettered, with a pictorial coat-of-arms design on the top right quadrant of the upper cover in 5 colours and gilt, edges uncut. A very fine and handsome copy, as pristine and still being largely uncut and unopened, bright and clean and beautifully preserved. A BEAUTIFUL PRINTING OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT TEXT. Includes Columbus’ journals from all four voyages as well as a section on the second voyage from Andrés Bernáldez. An important primary source for any study of Columbus.

Exploration and the Search for King Solomon’s MinesSir Richard Bur-ton’s Gold-Mines of Midian...


Burton, Richard F. THE GOLD-MINES OF MIDIAN AND THE RUINED MIDIANITE CITIES. A Fortnight’s Tour in North-western Arabia (London: C. Keegan Paul & Co., 1878) First edition. With fine black & white illustrations in text and a folding map. 8vo, publisher’s maroon cloth, probable remainder binding without decorative work to the upper cover and without beveled edges, lettered in gilt on the spine. A scarce find in original cloth, internally quite clean and fresh but for minor offsetting to the

edges of the paste-downs and a few ad leaves or prelims from moisture, the binding gilt is bright and the edges of the covers with unobtrusive evidence of the old moisture. AN ESPECIALLY INTERESTING BOOK AND SCARCE IN CLOTH. Burton traveled in November 1877 into the Empty Quar-ter of the Arabian Peninsula, following the natives’ tales of “ruined towns once prosperous with dense populations, of quarries where King Solomon found gold for the walls of the Temple...”

The Seasons - An Early American Chapbook - 1845A Bright Edition of a Chapbook

Hart’s Dreame (1592) wrote that “‘Chapmen are able to spred more pamphlets...then all the booksellers in town.’” Although they sold other wares, too, they always had cheap booklets, sometimes ballad sheets which eventually assumed the familiar form af a miniature booklet, with a paper cover thatusually had a picture. Even Shake-speare, in Henry IV, mentioned the chapmen as did Urquhart’s Rabelais in 1653.

Item Number: 7 Price: $850. [Chap Book] Phelps, A. THE SEASONS (Greenfield: A. Phelps, 1845) First edition. VERY RARE. 12 illustrations Small 8vo, original illustrated wraps. 8 pages and wrappes. Cover and pages are still bright, pages separated at hinge. This children’s book is called a chapbook, a more modern term that derives from the chapmen. Chapmen were pedlars who hawked their goods in towns and villages, and at country fairs. In 1553, Edward VI proclaimed that champmen must be licensed and Chettle, in Kind



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of preservation, no fading, hinges strong and firm, only the lightest evidence of age whatsoever, the text-blocks in very nice condition too, clean and fresh. THE FINE AND IMPORTANT TRANSLATION OF ONE OF THE GREATEST LITERARY WORKS, BY THE RENOWN AMERICAN LITERARY GIANT HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. It is one of the few three volume presentations of Longfellow’s famed translation. It also includes Longfellows extensive notes and Illustrations from Voltaire, Ozanam, Stehelin, etc., and an index.

The First Octavo Edition - Replete with Plates and MapsNarrative of Travels and DiscoveriesDenham and Clap-perton in Africa 1822-1824

Item Number: 11 Price: $795. Denham, Major Dixon, and Captain Hugh Clapperton and Doc-tor Oudney. NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824... Extending Across the Great Desert...and From Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. (London: John Murray, 1826) 2 volumes. First Octavo Edition and Second edition overall. With three folding maps including a a very large folding map at the end of Vol. I, one hand-colored engraved view, and 12 other engraved plates by Finden, and with a number of illustrations in the text. 8vo, three quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering to the spines. A handsome

Cities and Cemetaries of Etruria - London - 1878Dennis’ ‘Etruria and the Etruscans’The Best Edition - Original Decorated Cloth - Two Volumes

pictorial devices on the covers all in Etruscan motif. A fine and very handsome set, the text uncommonly clean and fresh. A very scarce early AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT study of Etruscan archeology and art. Though ostensibly a guide book to the regions of Italy and Germany where ancient monuments and remains might be found, the author has transcended the genre by providing historical and other scholarly references and delving into the histories of the various sites. It is one of the earliest and most important works on the Etruscans.

Dennis, George. THE CITIES AND CEMETERIES OF ETRURIA (London: John Murray, 1878) 2 volumes. Revised and preferred edition, recording the most recent discoveries made after the printing of the first edition. With over 200 illustrations including 98 fine plates, illustrations in the text, one colour lithograph, 33 plans and maps many of which are folding, including a large folding map at the rear of the second volume. Large, thick 8vo, original dark brick-red cloth gilt lettered and decorated on the spines and decorated with blind stamped borders and central gilt

The Fables of Aesop - Published London - 1909A Very Nice Copy of Detmold’s Best WorkBeautifully Illus-trated with Tipped-In Colourplates

Item Number: 13 Price: $1250. [Detmold, illus.]. THE FABLES OF AESOP (London: Hod-der and Stoughton, [1909]) First edition. Illustrated with 23 tipped-in color plates by Edward J. Detmold. 4to, tan cloth with elaborate pictorial decoration in colours on the upper cover and spine. A very nice copy, free of the inevitable browning to the endpapers.

Further Poems of Emily DickinsonLimed Edition of Only 465 CopiesEdited by Her Niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi

a black morocco label lettered and framed in gilt. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, containing roughly 200 posthu-mously published poems by Dickinson, most of which were discovered in the possession of her sister. Ms. Dickinson’s niece says in the introduction, “When the little, unexplored package gave up these poems of Emily Dickinson which her sister, Lavinia, saw fit never to publish, it was for one breathless instant as if the bright apparition of Emily had returned to the old house”.

Item Number: 14 Price: $1250.Dickinson, Emily. FURTHER POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON. Edited by her Niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929) First edi-tion LIMITED to 465 hand-numbered copies of which 450 were for sale. This an out of sequence copy which was never numbered. With manuscript facsimile of a poem as frontispiece. 8vo, very finely bound in half green morocco and green cloth, the back gilt ruled along the edges, the spine with raised bands ruled in blind creating gilt framed compartments, one compartment with

and well preserved copy, light age evidence, the plates and text-blocks in good order and with some occasional notes in pencil by a learned reader. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT WORK. Denham and Clapperton, in the company of Dr. Walter Oudney, traveled from Benioleed, near Tripoli, almost due south to Lake Tchad, with excursions into the mountains west of Mourzuk in Fezzan. The engravings, after draw-ings by Denham and Clapperton, are superbly engraved by Edward Finden, one of the finest steel-engravers in England at the time.

A VERY PLEASING COPY AND QUITE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. These illustrations represent, in our opinion, Det-mold’s very best work. Their grace and sensitivity reflect a certain Eastern sensibility. The artist’s powers in the delicate communication of nature’s spirit are exemplified by these wonderful paintings, rich with the wide variety of the colours in the spectrum.


The Important Longfellow Translation of DanteThe Divine Comedy of Dante AlighieriThree Volumes - Original Green Cloth - Fine and Bright

Item Number: 10 Price: $1650. Dante Alighieri, [Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Translator]. THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields and Fields, Osgood & Co., 1877) 3 volumes. Early printing of Longfellow’s great translation, is-sued by Osgood, in the original three volume format as in the first printing. This a large paper set with fine broad margins. Title-pages printed in black and red. Large 8vo, bound in the publisher’s original dark-green cloth, the spines lettered and ruled in gilt, upper covers gilt lettered, coated brown endpapers. A very handsome and fine set, the green cloth in excellent state

Doré’s Magnificent Bible - Super Folio - A Pristine SetTwo Volumes In Superb Bindings Gilt ExtraWith Spectacular Il-lustrations - Rare in this State

endleaves. A truly beautiful and outstanding set of this great Doré creation in its most exemplary format. VERY RARE LIMITED EDITION AND THE SUPER FOLIO PRINTING IN THE MOST DELUXE BINDING ISSUED. One of the most magnificent of the Doré illustrated books. A huge testament to Doré’s talent and a most impressive set in size and scope. These books are not commonly found in such condition, but this copy is nearly as mint, and pristine, bright and solid as the day it was made and surely as beautiful a copy as one can possibly hope to find.

Item Number: 15 Price: $5750.[Doré, Gustav. Illus]. THE HOLY BIBLE... (London: Cassell and Company, Limited, [c. 1875]) 2 volumes. The Edition De Luxe. The best edition in the best bindings. With 220 full page engrav-ings by Gustave Doré. Super Folio, publisher’s best bindings of full rich brown morocco gilt, covers with ornate blind tooled and gilt rolled borders and elaborate gilt designs in arabesque patterns across the entirety of both covers, spines with raised bands and gilt lettering in two compartments, elaborate gilt tooled decora-tions in the other compartments, turn-ins gilt tooled, marbled



Selected Poems - Robert Frost - First EditionIS THE ONLY BOOK FOR WHICH ROBERT FROST SELECTED ALL THE POEMS. This edition includes most of Frost’s best- loved poems from A BOY’S WILL, NORTH OF BOSTON, MOUNTAIN INTERVAL and lyrics from NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Item Number: 19 Price: $350.A Very Pleasing and Bright Copy - 1928

Frost, Robert. SELECTED POEMS (New York: Henry Holt, 1928) First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth over paper boards, the spine lettered in gilt and with Frost’s sig-nature in gilt on the upper cover. A clean and handsome copy, light wear to the edges. THE FIRST EDITION OF THE EXPANDED VERSION. THIS

Robert Frost: A Bibliography - A Fine Copy

Item Number: 20 Price: $450.[Frost] Clymer, W.B. Shubrick and Charles R. Green. ROBERT FROST: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. With a Foreword by David Lam-buth (Amherst, MA: The Jones Library, Inc., 1937) First Edition, SIGNED COPY. One of a limited edition of 500 copies only. Signed by Robert Frost With photographs of the author’s books and a facsimile illustration of one of his poems. 8vo, publisher’s original full rust buckram lettered in gilt. A very fine copy .

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE GREAT AMERICAN POET. A fine copy of the most important bibliography of the poet.

Signed by Robert Frost - 1937 - First Edition

George Eliot’s Final and Most Autobiographical WritingsImpressions of Theo-phrastus Such - First Edition

Item Number: 18 Price: $895.Eliot, George. IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS SUCH (Ed-inburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1879) First Edition, with fine provenance, having come from the collection of Robert Hoe with his gilt lettered morocco ex libris. 8vo, beautifully bound by Riviere and Son in full tan calf, the covers with multi-ruled gilt fillet lines at the borders with circular tools as corner-pieces, the spine richly gilt decorated in panels between gilt ruled and stippled raised bands, two compartments with contrasting red and green morocco labels finely gilt ruled and lettered and with gilt tooled corner-pieces, beautifully gilt tooled turn-ins.

A superb, very fine and handsome copy. FIRST EDITION, A COPY FROM A FINE LITERARY COL-LECTION AND VERY FINELY BOUND. Eliot’s last published writings and considered by many to be her most experimental. It takes the form of a series of literary essays by an imaginary minor scholar whose eccentric character is revealed through his work. The second chapter of the book, “Looking Backwards” is also considered her most autobiographical writing.

Nyasaland Under the Foreign Office - 1903 Item Number: 16 Price: $595.Duff, H.L. NYASALAND UNDER THE FOREIGN OFFICE (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903) First edition, the best of the issues with the deluxe binding and extra illustration. 17 il-lustrations on 16 full-page plates, 1 coloured folding map. 8vo, publisher’s best binding of original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the upper cover. A fine, bright and very handsome copy.

Fine First Edition - Preferred Issue - Best Binding

RARE IN THIS BINDING AND PREFERRED ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION. The author says in his preface that every word of this book, except for a few connecting paragraphs and explanatory notes necessary for coherence, was written “among the scenes which it treats. It has been my habit to record personal experiences and impressions as nearly as possible at the time of their occurrence...”

The Rare Offprint from Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie

Item Number: 17 Price: $4500.Einstein, A[lbert]. [Offprint issue;] Theoretische Bemerkungen über die Brownsche Bewegung (Weinheim: Offprint from: Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie. Nr. 6., 1907, February) First Edi-tion, Offprint Issue from Volume 13, number 6. Single sheet, approximately 10” x 8” pp 41-42 pp. A very fine example of this rare issue, a very minor and unobtrusive stain to an upper corner.

SCARCE OFFPRINT ISSUE OF AN IMPORTANT EINSTEIN PAPER OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS and a continuation of his remarkable 1905 and 1906 publications on Brownian Motion, which not only led to the proof of the existence of the atom but also worked to determine the size of atoms, and how many atoms there are in a mole, or the molecular weight in grams, of a gas. This paper also contains a note on the technical meaning of “average velocity.”

Einstein’s Important Continuation on Brownian Motion

The Works of Oliver GoldsmithBound in Blue Calf and Decorated in Gilt

Item Number: 21 Price: $1250.Goldsmith, Oliver. THE WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. With a Life and Notes. (London: H.G.Bohn, 1854) 4 volumes. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait in volume one and engraved title page vignettes in each volume . 12mo, hand-somely bound in antique 3/4 blue calf over marbled boards, lettered and decorated with elaborate gilt tooling between raised bands on the spines, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. A pleasing, clean and well preserved set in handsome, finely decorated bindings.

A HANDSOME DECORATED SET.“This edition contains, together with all the pieces usually published, the Captivity, an Oratorio, the Threnodia Augustalis, and four short poems illustrative of “Retaliation.” All the poems have been carefully collated with the best editions.The Plays are reprinted from the edition of Goldsmith’s Miscellaneous Works by the London booksellers. The Letters are chiefly extracted from a memoir of the author.

One of the First Craftsmen of the Language



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FIRST EDITION ISSUED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. This edition includes nine poems which had never before been collected or produced in book form and a short memoir of the author from Griswold’s POETRY AND POETS IN AMERICA. A fragile book, nice copies are seldom encountered.

Men, Women, and Books - First Editiongilt tooled turn-ins. A very handsome set, internally fine and fresh, the antique bindings with just a hint of age to the edges and extremities but very lovely and still very solid. A VERY HANDSOME SET OF THIS UNCOMMON WORK BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFF. This is a wonderful selection of prose works by one the great literary insiders of his gen-eration. The literary circle Hunt had gathered around him included not only Keats, Shelley and Byron but also William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Bryan Procter, Benjamin Haydon, Charles Cowden Clarke, C.W. Dilke, Walter Coulson and John Hamilton Reynolds.

Item Number: 25 Price: $425.Hunt, Leigh. MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS; A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, From His Uncollected Prose Writings (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1847) 2 vol-umes. First Edition. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author including the original tissue guard. 8vo, bound in very handsome antique full calf by Sangorski and Sutcliff, the spines finely tooled and gilt extra between stippled raised bands, two compartments with contrasting morocco labels gilt ruled and lettered, the boards with double-lined ruled borders with small floral corner pieces, double-line gilt ruled board edges,

Prose Writings of Leigh Hunt - Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliff

Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of Virginia” Item Number: 26 Price: $7000.Jefferson, Thomas. NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA (Philadelphia: R. T. Rawle, 1801) A very early printing of this great work, the first hot-pressed edition, and a very early Phila-delphia issue. With the large folding map and a number of other fine plates. With the large engraved folding map, the engraved portrait frontispiece, map of Madison’s cave, the folding chart of the Indian tribes, folding engraved view of the Natural Bridge and map of the Ohio and with Jefferson’s inaugural address and his work on the Logan massacre. 8vo, in later full calf in antique style, the end-leaves preserved from an earlier binding. A very handsome copy of this very early printing. The internal pages

A Rare Edition - The Large Folding Map in Excellent StateWith a Number of Other Plates and Ad-ditional Material

are very clean and bright, minor toning to the prelims less then expected, the large folding map with mild antique stain at the gutter but with no splitting or tears. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS EVER WRIT-TEN BY A FUTURE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, AND ONE OF THE SINGULAR DOCUMENTS FOR WHICH JEFFERSON WISHED TO BE REMEMBERED. This is, “Unquestionably the best of the early American editions...The material in the text relative to the Logan incident has been changed in accordance with the Ap-pendix of 1800.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. PASSAGES FROM THE FRENCH AND ITALIAN NOTE-BOOKS (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872) 2 volumes. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo., publisher’s origi-nal green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and in blind on the covers. A fine and bright set with very minimal evidence of age or use.

Item Number: 22 Price: $395.A Fine Set in the Original Gilt Deco-rated Green Cloth

FIRST EDITION OF THESE WRITINGS ON FRANCE AND ITALY, MADE DURING HAWTHORNE’S SOJOURN in the countries taken after his service a consul to Great Britain during the Presidency of Franklin Pierce.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s French and Italian Note-Books

The Sun Also Rises - In the Scarce Original DustjacketOne of Hemingway’s Most Important Books

edges, internally with just a bit of the aging to which the paper is prone. The rare iconic dustjacket still very handsome, toned just a bit as would be expected, and with some light evidence of shelving or use at the edges or tips. FIRST EDITION, EARLY PRINTING, OF ONE OF THE AU-THOR’S MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS AND AN ICON IN THE WORLD OF MODERN LITERATURE. PERHAPS THE GREAT-EST OF THE 20TH CENTURY EXPATRIATE NOVELS.

Item Number: 23 Price: $3250.Hemingway, Ernest. THE SUN ALSO RISES (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928) First Edition, eighth printing, February 1928. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, with the gold paper labels on the spine and upper cover printed in black, in the scarce original dustjacket decorated and designed just as in the first printing. A very pleasing copy, surprising in its state of preserva-tion, the black cloth still quite fresh and bright, the gold labels whole and bright, a bit of minor mellowing only to the tips or

Charles Johnson’s Most Important Book - Middle PassageAutographed First Edition - As Pristine in DustjacketWinner of the Na-tional Book Award

Item Number: 27 Price: $350.Johnson, Charles. MIDDLE PASSAGE (New York: Atheneum, 1990) First edition, first printing, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s burgundy boards backed in black cloth, the spine gilt lettered, in the original pictorially decorated dustjacket. A very fine, essentially as mint and pristine copy. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR,

and considered by many as one of his best books. It is also one in which he addresses most directly the issues of black lives in American history. The novel shows a personal and historical perspective on the illegal slave trade in the United States. Set in 1830, the novel won the National Book Award in 1990.

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Poems - His First Book Item Number: 24 Price: $250.Holmes, Oliver Wendell. POEMS (London: O. Rich & Sons, 1846) The Author’s First Book. First English edition with ma-terial never previously appearing in book form or preciously collected. 8vo, publisher’s original brown ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt and ruled in blind on the spine, covers bordered and stamped in blind. A clean copy, head and tail of the spine with a bit of wear from shelving and age, internally clean, hinges in good order.

First Edition with Materials Never Before in Book FormThe First English Edition - London - 1846



Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer - Grove Press Item Number: 31 Price: $650.Miller, Henry. TROPIC OF CANCER (New York: Grove Press, 1961) First authorized and first trade edition issued in America. With a long introduction by Karl Shapiro and a preface by Anais Nin. 8vo., publisher’s original cloth backed boards in dustjacket. A handsome, clean and pleasing copy, some light evidence of age or shelving to the dustjacket, the book very fine. FIRST AUTHORIZED AND FIRST TRADE EDITION ISSUED IN AMERICA. Of the book, John Ciardi said, [it] “is a substantial

The First Authorized and Trade Edition of a Classic Work

work of art. The violence of Miller’s attack on orthodoxy and false-ness is indispensable to his human vision of things. In [the book] the test is ferocity, a ferocious and yet naive sincerity that castigates all sham. It cannot fail to be moral finally, because the ferocity is radically moral. And because the author is an artist--a very good one, as the continued ‘underground life’ of the book attests.” Ours is a very nice copy of this classic.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. THE SONG OF HIAWATHA (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855) First edition, an intermediate issue with “dived” on page 96. November, 1855 ads. 8vo, pub-lisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Blind-stamped decorations and borders to the covers. A very pleasing copy, as fine, the cloth and text-block very well preserved with only light evidence of age. Crisp and clean internally and the

Item Number: 29 Price: $495.A Very Pleasing Copy in the Original Deco-rated Cloth

cloth without any of the typical staining. AN IMPORTANT AND REVERED AMERICAN LITERARY FIRST. This is a very pleasing copy of Longfellow’s romantic verse tale. Its metre was based on the Finnish epic Kalevala, which the poem resembles in spirit as well as in several passages. Longfellow drew much of his information from the works of Schoocraft, Catlin, and Heckewelder.

First Edition of Longfellow’s “Hiawatha”

The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French RevolutionMahan’s Classic - 1893 - First Edition

the text quite fine. A SCARCE WORK BY MAHAN. In this work, as well as through its predecessor entitled THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY, 1660-1783, Mahan demonstrates the considerable ties between naval warfare and the history of the modern world. He was one of the first historians ever to seriously examine this correlation.

Item Number: 30 Price: $650.Mahan, Capt. A[lfred] T[hayer]. THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND EMPIRE, 1793-1812 (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1893) 2 volumes. First edition. With 13 maps and battle plans. 4to, publisher’s original navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on spines, gilt pictorial decorations on upper covers. A handsome set, the cloth clean with only a few spots of age-wear or light mellowing,

Johnson’s Great Dictionary - PMM - First Edition - 1755“The Most Amaz-ing, Enduring, and EndearingOne-Man Feat in the Field of Lexicogra-phy”

title-page to Vol. I reinserted and tipped in after repair to a closed tear at the verso. RARE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT, THE TRUE FIRST EDI-TION OF SAMUEL JOHNSON’S MASTERWORK. “The most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicog-raphy (PMM). Begun in 1747 and printed over five years, Johnson’s DICTIONARY set the standard for all subsequent lexicographical work. Its excellence was immediately recognized in all quarters and the first edition of two thousand copies sold quickly.

Item Number: 28 Price: $15,000.Johnson, Samuel. A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LAN-GUAGE... (London: by W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755) 2 volumes. First edition. Title pages printed in red & black, woodcut tailpieces. Royal folio, bound in contem-porary brown paneled calf, sometime re-backed to style, morocco lettering labels gilt. Each volume housed in a cloth slipcase. A generally well preserved set with a bit of rubbing to the extremi-ties as would be expected, and with some typical evidence of use at the hinges. Internally clean and well preserved with the

First Edition in the Scarce DustjacketNow We Are Six


Milne, A. A. NOW WE ARE SIX (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927) First edition. With illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Small 8vo, publisher’s red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt on both covers and gilt lettered on the spine, t.e.g., with the pink illustrated endpapers and in the scarce dustjacket. A very nice, bright and clean copy, fresh and fine, the scarce jacket with just a minor bit of wear to the edges and a few small chips.

SCARCE IN DUSTJACKET. This third book in the quartet written by Milne, inspired by his young son Christopher, and illus-trated by Shepard was an instant success. Like WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, NOW WE ARE SIX is a joyful combination of verse and pictures designed to captivate young readers.

Joan Miró Engraver - Limited and Beautifully ProducedWith Three Original Woodcuts By the Artist


[Miró, Joan] Dupin, Jacques. MIRÓ ENGRAVER I. 1928-1960 (Paris: Daniel Lelong, 1984) First and limited edition, one of 2700 numbered copies printed in English and including the three original woodcuts by Joan Miró. With three original full-colour woodcuts especially executed by Miró for this edition printed Joan Barbarà’s Atelier in Barcelona and with 290 photogravure reproductions of Miró’s works printed by Jean-Paul Vibert and with several other black and white illustrations from photo-graphs. Folio, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in white on the upper cover and spine and in the original dust-jacket printed by Joan Barbarà and cut from wood by Joan Miró. A fine copy, the book essentially as new and pristine, the jacket in excellent, as pristine condition.

BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED Catalogue Raisonné OF THE EARLY WORKS OF THE GREAT SPANISH SURREALIST, JOAN MIRó. WITH THREE ORIGINAL full-colour WOODBLOCK PRINTS MADE ESPECIALLY FOR THIS EDITION. Earning international acclaim, Miró’s work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and fa-mously declared an “assassination of painting” in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting. This catalogue features works from 1928 to 1960.



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A Rare and Beautiful Edition of Ovid’s MetamorphosesTwo Beautiful Large Folio Volumes Pro-fusely IllustratedLatin and French - Printed in Amster-dam - 1732

the spines elaborately gilt tooled between wide gilt-tooled bands, the compartments in a floral motif. A very fine and handsome set, the contemporary calf extremely handsome with only the most minor of expected age, internally very fresh, clean and wonderfully preserved. VERY SCARCE, THE LATIN AND FRENCH VERSION OF WESTEIN AND SMITH’S IMPRESSIVE ILLUSTRATED OVID. It is far rarer then their Latin/English printing, OCLC notes only 15 copies in institutional collections and there are no auction records going back over 25 years. This a magnificent copy in full and very fine contemporary binding.

Item Number: 35 Price: $12,500.Ovid, . LES METAMORPHOSES D’OVIDE, En Latin, Traduites en Francois, Avec des Remarques... (Amsterdam: R. & J. Westein & G. Smith , 1732) 2 volumes. First of the edition, the French and Latin printed in double column. Extensively illustrated with figures in taille douce engraved by B. Picart and other skilled masters. The engravings consist of large pictorial illustrative chapter heads typically measuring over 22 by 17 cm. Also with engraved tail pieces and initials throughout. Folio, in very fine and handsome contemporary mottled calf, the boards paneled in gilt featuring an outer gilt rolled frame in a fleur de list mottif around an inner gilt panel featuring large acorn corner-pieces,

Pablo Picasso For Ambroise Vollard Item Number: 36 Price: $750.[Picasso, Pablo]. PICASSO FOR VOLLARD [Introduction by Hans Bolliger, Translation by Norbert Guterman] (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1956]) First edition of the Abrams issue for America, printed and bound by Verlag Gerd Hatje in Germany. With 100 plates from etchings of Pablo Picasso. 4to, publisher’s original black cloth decorated with a Picasso etching on the upper cover and lettered on the spine in silver, in the scarce original clear acetate dustjacket lettered on the upper cover in gilt. A bright and handsome copy, the book clean and fresh, the cloth unfaded

with bright silver, a tiny bit of shelving evidence to the lower edge, the scarce acetate jacket with far, far less than the usual yellowing and no warping at all, only a few small chips. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY IMPORTANT WORK. These 100 superb etchings made by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 for the great art critic and dealer Ambroise Vollard, who commissioned and published them, have long been recognized as one of the supreme productions of the master’s hand.

The 100 Etchings of His “Most Impres-sive Undertaking” First Edition of this Important Work - 1956

The Works of Plato - A Very Early Set in Two VolumesIn Unusually Well-Preserved Contempo-rary BindingsPublished in London - 1749

Item Number: 37 Price: $1250.Plato. THE WORKS OF PLATO ABRIDG’D: With an Account of His Life, Philosophy, Morals, and Politicks. Together with a translation of his Choicest Dialogues... (London: Printed for R. Ware, P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman....J. Rivington et al., 1749) 2 volumes. The fourth edition, corrected. Small 8vo, full contemporary polished calf with double gilt fillet rules to the borders of the covers; raised bands to the spine, separating the compartments which are beautifully decorated with gilt panel

designs and contrasting morocco lettering labels gilt, red edges. A very handsome, pleasing and fine contemporary set. This copy is without fault of restoration or refurbishment. SCARCE EARLY PRINTING OF THIS IMPORTANT TRANS-LATION AND VERSION OF PLATO’S DIALOGUES. Very at-tractive and complete set containing, among other writings, Socrates’ Apology, Crito, Protagoras and the first and second Alcibiades. With a Discourse on Plato, as well as a Life.

With 16 Colour Plates and Dazzling DecorationsPogany’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Item Number: 38 Price: $295.[Pogany, W. illus.; Fitzgerald, Edward]. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Presented by Willy Pogany (London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., n.d.) First edition thus. Beautifully illustrated with 16 full color tipped-in plates, exquisite decora-tive borders and incidental illustrations by all by Willy Pogany 8vo, publisher’s original bright honey-brown cloth elaborately decorated on the upper cover and spine with an arabesque designs and stylized lettering all in gilt. A pristine copy, very

pleasing, very well preserved, bright and clean, textblock and illustrations all in very nice condition. A VERY HANDSOME ISSUE OF THE POGANY ILLUS-TRATED RUBAIYAT. An exquisite volume in beautiful publisher’s cloth. Based on Fitzgerald’s translation, Pogany has filled each page with decorative Islamic style borders and decorations, accompanied by 16 full page tipped-in color plates. A fine example of Pogany’s work, a beauty by any definition.

The Silken East: A Record of Life and Travel in Burma Item Number: 34 Price: $1450.O’Connor, V. C. Scott. THE SILKEN EAST: A Record of Life and Travel in Burma (London: Hutchinson and Co, 1904) 2 volumes. First edition. Extensively illustrated with over 400 images including 22 colourplates and a profusion of black and white photographs, many of which are full page plates and a folding map. 8vo, publisher’s original bright blue cloth gilt lettered on spine, with an elaborate and beautiful all-over gilt pictorial design on the upper covers with a stylized oriental motif with sunrise. A very handsome and pleasing set, internally near pristine, the pages and plates bright and clean, the bindings with vivid gilt

V.C. Scott O’Connor’s Classic Work in its Best BindingA Beautifully Printed and Bound Work - London - 1904

and dark colour and with just very minor rubbing or mellow-ing or evidence of age. AN UNCOMMON, ELUSIVE AND VERY IMPORTANT WORK. THIS IS A BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL SET IN THE ORIGINAL GILT DECORATED CLOTH, and is very scarce as such, most copies being bound or in unappealing condition. text is perhaps the most complete of any work of this period and these very attractive volumes remain especially valuable for its illustrations and well planned and presented text.

Rackham’s Hansel and GrethelHis Splendid Rendering of the Grimms’ TalesFirst Edition - 1920

Item Number: 39 Price: $695.[Rackham, illus.] The Brothers Grimm. HANSEL AND GRE-THEL & OTHER TALES (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1920) First separate edition, American issue. With 20 tipped-in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 4to, original red cloth with gilt pictorial vignette and lettering on upper cover and black lettering on spine. A very nice copy. The cloth only lightly mellowed, internally clean and fresh.

SCARCE. It was FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, first published in 1909, for which Rackham had the most affection, perhaps because it was the first book to bring him success. Constable, during and after the war, reissued the stories in three separate books (LITTLE BROTHER, LITTLE SISTER; SNOWDROP; and HAN-SEL AND GRETHEL) to rekindle interest in fairy books in general and Rackham’s work in particular. The American edition was pub-lished by Duttin the same year.



Sir Walter Scott - Quentin Durward - 15th Century FranceFirst Edition - Period Bindings - 3 Volumes - 1823

Item Number: 40 Price: $595.[Scott, Sir Walter]. QUENTIN DURWARD (Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1823) 3 volumes. First edition. 8vo, contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards with red morocco lettering pieces lettered in gilt within gilt panelled spine. A handsome set with very light wear to the bindings

primarily at the extremities, a binder’s free-fly excised. FIRST EDITION. A story of France in the days of Louis XI (1461-1483) and of the love of Quentin Durward, a young soldier of the Scottish guards, for Isabelle, Countess of Croye.

John Selden’s Great Work on Honors and Titles - 1631A Standard For Cen-turies - The Second and Best Edition

Item Number: 41 Price: $2250.Selden, John, Esquire. TITLES OF HONOR (London: by Wil-liam Stansby for Richard Whitakers, 1631) The second edition of the work which earned Selden the praise of Ben Jonson, with expanded discourses on England that carried contemporary political ramifications. With the engraved bookplate of Theo-philus Desbrisay. With engraved title in red and black, engraved initials and illustrations within the text. Thick 4to, bound in contemporary full calf, the boards framed with a double-rule in blind, the spine with raised bands and with a red morocco label lettered and ruled in gilt. Very well preserved, the text surprisingly clean and still unpressed, minor edge wear to

the title-page and endleaves, the binding sturdy and strong but with minor age to the extremities and evidence of earlier expert sophistication. THE FIRST MAJOR WORK OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE BY THE MAN JOHN MILTON CALLED “THE CHIEF OF LEARNED MEN REPUTED IN THIS LAND.” It is also work for which Seldon was also praised as the “monarch of letters” by his friend Ben Jonson. First published in 1614, this treatise on the titles of nobility, peerage law, heraldry and genealogy remained the most comprehensive work on the subject for centuries.

William Shakespeare - The Poems and Plays - 16 VolumesA Very Handsome and Early Set of the Works - A Highly Important Edition with Notes of Ma-lone and Others

Item Number: 42 Price: $7500.Shakespeare, William. THE POEMS AND PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, In Sixteen Volumes... (Dublin: Printed for John Exshaw, 1794) 16 volumes. First of the Edition. Illustrated with finely engraved portraits, frontispiece, facsimiles of handwriting and other fine engravings on Steel, By C. Heath, C. Rolls, F. Ba-con, &c, From designs by Smirke, Westall, Corbould, Stephanoff, and Weight. 8vo, contemporary full polished, mottled calf, the spines handsomely decorated with gilt bands separating the compartments, two compartments with contrasting red and

black morocco lettering labels gilt decorated and lettered, oth-ers with central gilt ornamental device. A very handsome and unusually well preserved set. FINE AND EARLY SET OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORK. Includes a Life of Shakespeare , the author’s will, Appendices noting the plays and editions, commendatory verses on Shakespeare, Johnson’s, Rowe’s and Pope’s famed prefaces. This version derives as well as from Rowe and those who followed him, from Malone’s text, which is renowned for its accuracy and consistency.

An Account of Elizabethan Life and MannersShakespeare’s Eng-land - First Edition

Item Number: 43 Price: $395.[Shakespeare]; Onions, Lee, Raleigh, Mssrs., Editor and Ar-rangers. SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND: An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916) 2 volumes. Scarce first edition. Well illustrated with 195 plates and two engraved frontispieces from contemporary sources. 8vo, publisher’s original dark blue cloth beautifully lettered and decorated in gilt on spines and upper covers, lower covers decorated in blind. A very bright and handsome set, fresh and

clean and well preserved. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION, and a fascinating guide to the Elizabethan world, including essays on heraldry, costume, the home, booksellers, sports, religion, medicine and law. Sir Walter Raleigh outlined the first prospectus for this book in 1905, but was unable to complete it. Successive editors continued the task until its completion in the tercentenary year of Shakespeare’s death. Contribu-tors include Robert Bridges, Sir Walter Raleigh, and many others.

A Handsome Copy - The Poetry of Percy Bysshe ShelleyFinely Bound in Decorated Morocco Tooled in Blind and Gilt

Item Number: 44 Price: $295.Shelley, Percy Bysshe. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS... (Including Materials Never Before Printed in Any Edition of the Poems.) Edited (with Textual Notes) by Thomas Hutchinson (London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University, 1919) First of the edition. Portrait frontispiece of Shelley. 8vo, handsomely bound in three-quarter crushed brown morocco over cloth boards, the spine richly decorated with designed panels tooled in blind and gilt within compartments separated by gilt stopped raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment, the covers

with gilt fillet tooling at the borders, top edge gilt. A fine copy, beautifully presented and preserved. A FINE COPY IN A HANDSOME BINDING. Shelley remains one of the best known and loved Romantic poets; his works such as Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam and Prometheus Unbound have indisputably placed him amongst the greatest English poets. This handsome printing, in a fine antique binding, provides some of the greatest works of Romantic poetry.

First Edition of the English Issue in DustjacketCharlotte’s Web - A Bright and Lovely Copy

Item Number: 45 Price: $695.White, E. B. CHARLOTTE’S WEB (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952) First Edition, the English issue. With pictures throughout by Garth Williams. 8vo, publisher’s bright blue cloth pictorially lettered in a spider’s web motif on the upper cover and spine in red and black, in the original dustjacket. A very nice copy of this perennial favorite, the book near fine with just a hint of mellowing to the edges, the jacket likewise, solid and attractive with only the lightest amount of mellowing from time.

FIRST EDITION AND A LOVELY COPY. In the 60 odd years since its publication, CHARLOTTE’S WEB has gained a stature accorded to only a small handful of books each decade. One might fairly group it with THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS and BLACK BEAUTY as a classic of the first distinction. The first editions have become scarce, especially in such nice condition.

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