Poetical Works of William Cowper From “The Aldine Edition of the British Poets.”
From] "The Aldine Edition of the British Poets." London: William Pickering, 1830-1831. First edition of the three volumes of The Poetical Works of William Cowper, taken from "The Aldine Edition of the British Poets." Three small octavo volumes (6 5/16 x 4 inches; 160 x 100). xcvi, 264; vi, [2, ads], 307, [1, imprint]; xii, 386 pp. Volume one with general title from The Aldine Edition and each volume with a separate volume title. Volume one with frontispiece portrait. Each volume with a brightly colored, intricately detailed fore-edge painting. The three scenes are similar showing city centers and streets, filled with people and horse carriages. Uniformly bound in contemporary full diced maroon morocco. Boards ruled in blind, with gilt central devices. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Previous ownership inscriptions dated 1839 to the front free endpapers of each volume. Some minor rubbing to hinges. Overall a beautiful set. Housed together in a half morocco slipcase. Pickering's "well-printed three-volume edition [originally] published as volumes VII, VIII, and IV of Pickering's Aldine Edition of the British Poets" in 1830-1831; This original Pickering edition "contained the most complete text of the poems which had yet appeared. Southey used it as a basis, praising its arrangement and the anonymous Memoir of Cowper by the Rev. John Mitford" (Russell, p. 109). Also "excellently printed on good paper by the younger Whittingham"; each volume contains at the end of the text the imprint "Printed by C. Whittingham, Tooks Court." (Russell, p. 109). HBS 69084. $1,500.
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Pilgrim’s Progress from this World, to that Which is to Come Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Wherein is discovered, I. The Manner of his setting out. II. His dangerous Journey; and III. His safe Arrival at the desired Country.
Full Description: BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World, to that Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Wherein is discovered, I. The Manner of his setting out. II. His dangerous Journey; and III. His safe Arrival at the desired Country. Philadelphia: John McCulloch, 1789. Stated First American Edition, but more accurately first complete American edition with all three parts. Likely the first American appearance of Part III. Three parts in one twelvemo volume (6 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches; 168 x 105 mm). [1]-8, [13]-359, [1, publisher's ads] pp. No preliminary leaves A5 and A6, however this seems to be the accurate collation when compared to other copies. With separate title-pages for each part. We could find no other copy besides the present at auction in over 100 years. Early sheep, rebacked with spine laid down. Leather missing from back board. Spine chipped and boards rubbed. Corners bumped. Previous owner's old ink notes on front and rear endpapers. Leaves D2 and D3 with closed tear, no loss. H4 with tear to bottom margin with loss of a few words. O5 with tear to outer margin with loss of a few letters. Q2 with a small hole, just affecting a few letters. S5 with a tear to top margin, not affecting text. And leaf Aa5 with a closed tear, with no loss. Leaves are stained and toned as expected from American sheets of this era. Still avery good copy of this rare early American edition. "Part 3, first issued at London in 1693, is an imitation of Bunyan's style by an anonymous author" (Evans) The most well-known allegory ever written, this journey of the protagonist, Christian, is simultaneously filled with vivid and full human portraits of its characters. With over 100,000 copies sold in Bunyan's lifetime, this "most perfect and complex of fairy tales" succeeded in attracting audiences from every Christian sect. ESTC W18747. Evans 21720. HBS 69117. $6,500. Pilgrim’s Progress from this World, to that Which is to Come Complete in Three Parts. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. To Which is added, The Life and Death of the Author. Embellished with Cuts. Part the First [-Thrid]. Wherein is discovered I. The Manner of his Setting Out. II. His Dangerous Journey, And III. His Safe Arrival at the Desired Country.
Full Description: BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World, to that Which is to Come:. Complete in Three Parts. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. To Which is added, The Life and Death of the Author. Embellished with Cuts. Part the First [-Thrid]. Wherein is discovered I. The Manner of his Setting Out. II. His Dangerous Journey, And III. His Safe Arrival at the Desired Country. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1790-1791. First illustrated edition by Isaiah Thomas, and likely the first complete in three parts illustrated American edition. Twelvemo (6 3/4 x 4 inches; 172 x 105 mm). [2], 9-324, 345-404 pp. Bound without two preliminary leaves A3 and A4. There is a jump in pagination after page 324, but collation is correct. With 14 engraved plates inclusive of a separate frontispiece for each part and eleven other engravings in the text. With a separate title-page for each part. Parts II and III are dated 1790, and Part I is dated 1791. We could only find two copies at auction on Rare Book Hub since 1933, one of which was defective. Full contemporary (?) calf. Boards and spine with some chipping and rubbing. Corners bumped. Previous owner's old ink note on blank recto of first frontispiece. A large tear to upper right corner of leaf U5, with some loss of text. Leaves S2 and W4 with large closed tears, touching text and crudely stitched closed, but with no loss. Signatures G and H with tearing to lower inner margin, generally not affecting text, but with loss to leaf H[2] obscuring a few words in margin. Paper is toned and brittle as usual from American paper of this time. Overall a very good copy of a rare edition. "Part 3, first issued at London in 1693, is an imitation of Bunyan's style by an anonymous author" (Evans) "Without apparent exception, cuts for The Pilgrim's Progress during this period [1790s] and for that matter, well into the 1820's- were imitative. Indeed, the lack of variety in the illustrations might be said to be a principal characteristic of the American editions of Pilgrim's Progress. Occasionally an American edition itself furnished the cuts for later printings, as was the case with Isaiah Thomas's many issues of Bunyan's work. Thus Thomas's Boston editions of 1794 and 1800, as well as the "first" Exeter edition of 1804, borrowed plates from the Worcester edition of 1790. ("Illustrations of American Editions of "The Pilgrim's Progress" to 1870." David E. Smith, Gillett G. Griffin.) The most well-known allegory ever written, this journey of the protagonist, Christian, is simultaneously filled with vivid and full human portraits of its characters. With over 100,000 copies sold in Bunyan's lifetime, this "most perfect and complex of fairy tales" succeeded in attracting audiences from every Christian sect. ESTC W18748. Evans 23232 HBS 69116. $5,000. Workes of Benjamin Jonson
Full Description: JONSON, Ben. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. London: Richard Bishop for Andrew Crooke & for Richard Meighen, 1640, 1631. First edition of the second volume (containing the first appearance of the first three plays; Bartholomew Fayre, The Staple of Newes, The Divell is an Asse) and second edition of the first volume. Part I of the second volume was originally printed in 1631 as a continuation of the 1616 Workes. With Pforzheimer's issue "f" of the second volume in which all parts are without the general title, the first three plays are dated 1631 and Divell is an Asse with the 1641 imprint. The final page of Mortimer reads: "Left unfinished". It is also of note that William Shakespeare is listed as an actor in two plays of Volume I, Everyman in his humor and Seianus His Fall. Three folio volumes in two (10 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches; 277 x 181 mm. Second volume slightly larger). Volume I with engraved title-page by William Hole, and engraved portrait. Both volumes with woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. First volume lacking A1 (a blank), and second volume is lacking A1 (general title). Uniformly bound in contemporary dark brown acid-treated calf, rebacked with original spines laid down. Spines elaborately stamped in gilt in compartments. Red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Some mild toning and occasional light spotting throughout both volumes. Volume II with a closed lateral tear to leaves Cc-Cc3 which has been neatly repaired with no loss. Overall a very good copy. Pforzheimer credits the failure of The New Inn as the reason work on the second volume ceased until after Jonson's death. The first leaf in the first signature in this part was left blank in anticipation of a general title, but since the plans were cancelled, the plays were sold as printed, with only their individual titles, all dated 1631. A general title-page was created for the 1640 first edition of the Workes and the unsold 1631 printings were included as the first of four parts. "The three plays of Volume Il were all that Jonson saw through the press of a projected continuation of his 1616 volume. His failure to complete the collection was probably due to the damning by the town of The New Inn which was published 1631, the same year as this volume. Because of Jonson's supervision of this part, the text here given may be considered authoritative. As first printed Sig [A] was a blank, there being no general-title. In 1640, a number of these 1631 plays still remaining unsold, sheet [AI and 6] was again passed the press, this time of Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcett, and the general-title. printed on recto (A). This title refers only to the three plays printed in 1631 and describes them as 'The fecond Volume'. However, bound with these three 1631 plays are normally found the three parts containing the masques, plays and miscellany dated 1640 (or 1641) which have no general-title nor any other preliminary matter. The fact that over a period of years the 1631 plays may have been sold as a supplementary volume to the 1616 Workes. would easily account for their being described as the second volume quite aside from the explicit statement of the 1640 general-title. (Pforzheimer 560) Greg, III, p. 1073-1076. Pforzheimer 560 (the second volume). STC 14753 and 14754. HBS 69113. $15,000. Bibliotheca Classica; Or, A Classical Dictionary, Containing A Full Account of all the Proper Names Mentioned in Antient Authors. With Tables of Coins, Weights, and Measures, In Use Among the Greeks and Romans. To Which is now Prefixed A chronological Table. The Second Edition Greatly Enlarged.
From the Library of Elizabeth Barret Browning. The top margin of the title-page is signed by Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett, 'E.M.Barrett'. On the front free endpaper is inscribed 'This book belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Being all to pieces, tied up by strong, it was rebound by Wells, the College Bookseller, Winchester. Her signature still remains â" it was a pity, but had to be done. O. Moulton-Barrett, Southgate Hall, Winchester, 1874'. This book is listed in Kelley & Coley, number A1440. Browning's copy of this second edition. Octavo (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 197 x 124 mm). It is quite rare to find books from her personal library. Browning was a scholar of Ancient Greek studies and ost likely used this present copy in her studies and as reference when writing her translation of Prometheus Bound, Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets, as well as her series of poems retelling the story of Metamorphoses by Apuleius about the lovers Cupid and Psyche. Half nineteenth century calf over marbled boards. Rebacked with spine laid down. Boards tooled in blind. Spine stamped in gilt. Brown calf spine label, lettered in gilt. Top edge dyed brown others speckled red. Drab blue endpapers. Boards with some rubbing. Spine with some chipping and flaking. Title-page with a closed tear, neatly repaired. Leaf A2 with the fore-edge margin reinforced. Leaf A3 with bottom margin reinforced and top quarter of the page torn, suffering loss. Leaves occasionally trimmed close ot fore-edge, sometimes touching a few letters. A few smudges and a bit of toning. Still a very good copy with a great association. Provenance: From the family of Octavius Moulton-Barrett (1824-1910), youngest brother of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, thence by descent. Barnes. Kelley & Coley A1440. HBS 69114. $8,500. Book of Animals Class Mammalia, (Animals that Suckle Their Young.) Published under the Direction of the committee of General Literature and Education, Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Inscribed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on front free endpaper "With E. B. Barrett's love, to dear Bessy Peyton, Sidmouth November 5th 1833". We have not been able to specifically determine who Bessy Peyton is, however Peyton is the last name of a family who was neighbors to the estate of Hope End where Elizabeth Barrett Browning was raised. Small octavo (5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches; 140 x 95 mm). [3]- 156, [4, publisher's ads] pp. With engraved frontispiece and numerous engravings throughout. Publisher's full blue cloth over limp boards. Small paper spine label, lettered in gilt. Inner hinges reinforced. Overall about fine. Chemised and housed in a blue cloth slipcase. Overall an about fine copy with an excellent association. Provenance: From the family of Octavius Moulton-Barrett (1824-1910), youngest brother of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, thence by descent. HBS 69115. $8,500. White-Jacket; or The World in a Man-of-War
Full Description: MELVILLE, Herman. White-Jacket; or The World in a Man-of-War. London: Richard Bentley, 1853. First edition, remainder issue (second issue). Consisting of the 1850 first edition sheets with the new cancel title-pages. Two octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 4 9/16 inches; 194 x 116 mm). iv, [2, contents], 322; iv, 315, [1, blank] pp. Later half dark blue calf over marbled boards, Spines elaborately tooled in blind and gilt. Red and green morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Top edge red. Newer endpapers. Some occasional finger smudging. Otherwise a near fine copy. The manuscript was refused by Murray, Colbour, and Moxon, before Bentley offered two hundred pounds for the English rights to print 1000 copies. The American edition is subsequent to the English. Sometime in 1853 Bentley, in an effort to stimulate sales of Melville's books, ordered the remainder sheets of Redburn, The White Jacket and The Whale bound up in uniform red cloth bindings, with cancel title-pages. "The book contains an account of Melville's experiences subsequent to those related in Omoo, as a sailor aboard the United States Frigate United States, from which he received his discharge in Boston, in October, 1844" (Minnegerode, M. Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and A Bibliography, p. 155). The work that immediately preceded Moby Dick. In White-Jacket "Melville reveals his distaste for the brutal and inhumane practices of the ship officers in a realistic account of life aboard a U.S. Navy man-of-war. Some of the flogging scenes later persuaded Congress to abolish that punishment. The white jacket, for which the narrator is named, symbolic of his isolation and innocence, threatens to drown the hero when he falls from the mast into the water. Regaining his buoyancy, White Jacket frees himself from the jacket and rises to the surface, while the hated garment sinks forever. (Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia, 1111). BAL 13661, note. HBS 69111. $3,000. [Magical Blow Book/Flip Book]
n.p. n.d.c.a. 1890]. Small octavo (5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches; 140 x 95 mm). This copy in contemporary illustrated black wrappers. Internally all plates very clean and bright. Inside wrappers with instructions in German, French, English, Spanish, Italian and Russian. A beautiful copy of a magical blow book or flip book (also known as a magic coloring book). This type of trick is considered the oldest example of a "manufactured prop" to be used for magic. It works by a series of small notches, or incisions in the fore-margin to create tabs, (five tabs in this case) and depending on where the magician places their thumb, they flip the leaves of a certain group, revealing one set of plates. Then with a movement of the finger placement, a new set of plates will be revealed. Complete with a total of 49 plates on 28 leaves. Many of the plates are in beautiful color with sharp detail. The plates include a animals such as a lion, zebra, tiger and pig. Some musical scores, a few alphabets in various scripts, silhouettes and various characters and scenes among others. HBS 69099. $1,000. The Treasure Ship
8220;The Treasure Ship." Original pen, ink and watercolor painting. Titled and signed at lower left and marked with Timlin's owl device. [N.d.: n.d.]. Image size: 21 x 14 1/4 inches; 535 x 365 mm. Matted, framed, and glazed. Framed size: 34 3/4 x 27 inches; 880 x 680 mm. Framed in a beautiful gilt frame. This painting is not attributed as an illustration to any known work, but it could be an unused image for "The Ship that Sailed to Mars." Depicts the front half of a large galleon that is pulled up to the dock. There are three more boats coming into the dock in the distance. The main boat is flying an English flag and one of the three on the horizon is flying a pirate flag. There are a few people on the dock including some pirates. This is a beautiful original watercolor in tones of browns and blues. William Timlin was born in Northumberland, England, and studied art in Newcastle before following his parents to South Africa in 1915, where he completed his studies in art and architecture. He then practiced as an architect, designing a number of major public buildings in Kimberley; at the same time he worked as an artist, producing paintings, etchings and pastels of conventional subjects, in addition to the watercolor fantasies for which he is best known. He also wrote stories and music, and did periodical illustrations. In 1923 he published "The Ship that Sailed to Mars", which he wrote, illustrated and produced himself. This has become a classic work. It has been asserted that the illustrations to this book put him in the top ten of fantasy illustrators with Rackham, Dulac, Nielsen and Goble. HBS 69109. $15,000. Cyrano de Bergerac Comédie Héroïque en Cinq Actes en Vers.
Full Description: ROSTAND, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac. Comédie Héroïque en Cinq Actes en Vers. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1898. First trade edition. Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 5/16 inches; 200 x 135 mm). [1]-225, [3, blank] pp. In original glassine. Inscribed by Rostand to Fernand Bougeat on half-title, "à monsieur / Fernand Bourgeat / souvenir coronal / Edmond Rostand." Also with a postcard, dated 1930, of Coquelin Ainé as Cyrano de Bergerac laid in. A rare presentation in the original wrappers. Fernand Bourgeat (1851-1932) was the Secretary General of the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris. Original light green printed wrappers. Front wrapper invisible reattached. Wrappers printed in dark green. Edges uncut. In glassine. Back wrapper with a small closed tear to the bottom margin. Spine a bit creased and lightly flaking. Old ink note to top corner of glassine. Glassine lightly toned. Overall a very nice, clean copy. Housed in a chemise and cloth slipcase with red morocco spine labels. "Cyrano de Bergerac is the most famous example of poetic, romantic drama that [Rostand] created. A colorful and exciting portrait of the reign of Louis XIII, with an aspiring poet-lover for its hero, the play enjoyed tremendous popularity." (Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia, 890). HBS 69105. $15,000. Plays of William Shakespeare In Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; To Which are added Notes by Sam. Johnson.
. The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; To Which are added Notes by Sam. Johnson. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall., 1765. Full Description: SHAKESPEARE, William. [JOHNSON, Samuel, editor]. The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; To Which is added Notes by Sam. Johnson. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall., 1765. First Samuel Johnson variorum edition, first issue, with the unpaginated Johnson preface. Eight octavo volumes (8 x 4 3/4 inches; 204 x 122 mm). [78], ciii, [1, blank], [1]-488; [2], [1]-557, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-504; [2], [1]-589, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-493, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-627, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-547, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-473, [1, blank], [53, appendix], [1, blank] pp. Volume one with engraved frontispiece portrait. Bound without half-titles, except in volume IV, which is bound without general title. Contemporary full calf, rebacked with spines laid down. Boards tooled in gilt. Spines elaborately stamped in gilt. Each spine with one red, one green and one black calf spine label, lettered in gilt. Dentelles tooled in blind. All edges speckled brown. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Some offsetting to endpapers. Dampstaining to fore-edge of final 100 leaves and back board of Volume III, some just barely touching outermost margin. Volume VI with a small repair to title-page and leaf B1, with no loss. Volume VII with repair to bottom margin of title-page and tear to bottom margin of leaf B1, no loss to of text to either leaf. Leaf G8 with a tear to the fore-edge margin, not affecting text. A small repaired closed tear to final leaf Nn2, no loss. Back inner hinge of this volume reinforced. Still an overall handsome set of this important edition. Johnson included the prefaces of Pope, Theobald, Warburton and Hanmer in this edition, along with Rowe's Life, and Shakespeare's Will, as well as his own sixty-eight page preface. Ebisch and Schücking, p. 54. Jaggard, p. 501. Shaksperiana, Part III, 16. HBS 69101. $4,500. Child’s History of England With a frontispiece by F.W. Topham. Volume I. [II. III.] [1855, 1854].
DICKENS, Charles Full Description: DICKENS, Charles. A Child's History of England. With a frontispiece by F.W. Topham. Volume I. [II. III.] London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854 [1855, 1854]. Mixed set with early editions of Volumes I and II, first edition of Volume III. Three small squarish foolscap octavo volumes (6 x 4 3/4 inches; 150 x 120 mm). xi, [1, blank], 210, [1, ads], [1, blank]; viii, 214,[1, ads], [1, blank]; viii, 321, [1, blank],[1, ads], [1, blank] pp. Bound with all half-titles. With a wood-engraved frontispiece in each volume, consisting of a centerpiece, printed in black, surrounded by four vignette illustrations, printed in a grayish mauve. Tissue guards. Original moderate reddish brown bold-ribbed cloth. Covers stamped in blind, front covers pictorially stamped in gilt (depicting young Alfred reading to his mother). Spines lettered and stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers and edges. Spines lightly sunned, as usual. Some minor rubbing to corners and bottoms of spines. Some minor foxing in text, as usual. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. A lovely, bright set, almost fine. "The germ of this book was in the mind of Dickens nearly ten years before the idea was perfected. In 1843 he wrote to Douglas Jerrold concerning it but no immediate result followed. In style, subject and composition it was different from anything he had attempted. For the first and only time he dictated his thoughts to a second person, Chapters II and IV only are in his manuscript, the balance being in the handwriting of Miss Georgina Hogarth, his wife's sister. Originally it appeared in Household Words at irregular times from January 25, 1851, to December 10, 1853, inclusive. As a serial it was in forty-five chapters, but in book form it was reduced to thirty-seven" (Eckel). Smith II, 10. Eckel, pp. 128-130. HBS 69103. $1,250. Sermon on the Sea With an Introduction by John Haynes Holmes. Edited by Haridas T. Muzumdar.
GANDHI, Mahatma Full Description: GANDHI, Mahatma. Sermon on the Sea. With an Introduction by John Haynes Holmes. Edited by Haridas T. Muzumdar. Chicago: Universal Publishing Co., 1924. First US edition, signed twice by Gandhi. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 198 x 134 mm). i-128 pp. Signed in ink by Gandhi on front cover and on top margin of title-page. A certificate of authenticity is included with this volume from MDA Forensic Examiners. Publisher's full yellow cloth. Front board and spine printed in blue. Boards with some mild discoloration. Pages xii-xiii with some toning. Overall a near fine copy. "Those who would know the life of Gandhi may find it set down in the biography by the Editor of this volume, called Gandhi the Apostle. The writings which have come from Gandhi's pen in the form of newspaper editorials and articles, occasional essays, letters, addresses, etc., in the years of struggle from 1919 to 1922, together with the record of the famous trial, may be found in a book just published under the title, 'Young India.' The present volume has unique value as the only book ever written as such by the Mahatma. It is a remarkable presentation, in the form of a kind of Socratic dialogue, of the program of political independence and social regeneration which he seeks to achieve through his method of non-cooperation or non-resistant coercion. Known and widely read in India under the title 'Hind-Swaraj' ('Self-Determination'), it has hitherto been unavailable in this country. Its publication at this time is a notable event." (From the Introduction). "The title 'Sermon in the Sea' has been inspired by the fact that the book was written on board the steamer in November, 1909, while Gandhi was returning from England to South Africa; he himself first called it 'Indian Home Rule' and later on 'Hind Swaraj.' In the body of the book the term 'Hind Swaraj' ('India's Self-Determination') has been retained."(Editor's Note) "A testament to the revolutionary power of nonviolence, Gandhi's approach directly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr., who argued that the Gandhian philosophy was 'the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom'" (Papers 4:478). (Stanford University) HBS 69108. $8,500. Picture of Dorian Gray
WILDE, Oscar Full Description: WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward Lock and Co., [n.d., 1891]. First edition first issue in book form. Octavo (6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 175 x 120 mm). vii, [1, blank], 334 pp. Bound without the final blank leaf. Title-page designed by Charles Ricketts. With the typographic error at the beginning of line 23 of page 208 ("nd" instead of "and" - this was corrected for the July 1891 signed limited edition). Rebound to the style of original in quarter parchment over gray paper-covered beveled boards. Grey endpapers. Top edge gilt. Leaf B2 with tiny repair to bottom margin, not affecting text. Bottom outer corners repaired to leaves C1-C3, E1, I1, T4, V7 and X2. Leaf X7 with a one-inch closed tear to fore-edge margin, just touching one letter. Despite the small amount of wear, a wonderful example of this controversial novel. This edition can be distinguished from the (also undated) 1895 reprint by the "Ward Lock and Co." in which the imprint in the reprint was changed to that of "Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co." The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's first novel, and was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, July 1890. Six new chapters are added to this first appearance in book form, with many other additions and variations. On its first appearance this book was violently attacked by the critics and its publication did Wilde a great deal of harm. Mason 328. HBS 69104. $3,750.- $3,750
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Lady in the Lake
CHANDLER, Raymond Full Description: CHANDLER, Raymond. The Lady in the Lake. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition, First and second printing before publication. In first issue unclipped dust jacket with $2.00 price. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 190 x 130 mm. [vi], 216, [1, blank], [1, note] pp. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in dark green. Edges uncut. Binding slightly skewed. Dust jacket. Jacket has minor tape repairs to inside along head and tail of spine. Some minor flaking to top and bottom edges of jacket and jacket spine. Previous owner's gift inscription dated 1943 on front free endpaper. Still overall a near fine copy. The fourth adventure of Chandler's L.A. P.I. extrordinaire, Philip Marlow. Private detective Philip Marlowe is looking for the missing wife of Derace Kingsley. Is she dead or not? And is she the lady in the lake? This novel was the basis for the 1947 first-person film noir directed by, and starring, Robert Montgomery. Bruccoli, Chandler, A4.1.b. HBS 69107. $2,000.- $2,000
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Emancipation Proclamation
LINCOLN, Abraham Full Description: [LINCOLN, Abraham]. [Emancipation Proclamation]."A Proclamation by the President of the United States. Operations of the Confiscation Act. All Slaves in States in Rebellion January 1, 1863, to Be Free." New York. [Published in]: The New York Herald, Tuesday, September 23, 1862. Whole No. 9506. The publication of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in James Gordon Bennett's pro-Democratic New York Herald and one of, if not the first official public announcements of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Broadsheet folio, one large leaf folded along top to make four pages (two leaves printed on recto and verso). Six-column format. (22 x 15 1/2 inches; 560 x 395 mm). Light creases down the middle in both directions. Some nearly invisible repaird along top margin and edges. Some of the repairs just touching a few letters in the headline. Still a very good copy of this important declaration. We could only find 3 copies of this at auction and it is not mentioned in Eberstadt. Eberstadt mentions that his Third edition of the Emancipation has a publication date somewhere between September 24th and 26th, therefore putting the current copy before this. Eberstadt's first and second edition are the official state department editions, printed the day of the declaration, September 22nd, just the day before this New York Herald was printed. Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862 stating that if the rebelling states did not cease fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1, 1863, the slaves in those states would be set free. The New York Herald issued this front-page, top left corner early printing of Lincoln's Proclamation the very next day appearing under the headline: "All Slaves in States of Rebellion January 1, 1863, to Be Free." "Lincoln read the first draft of what came to be known as the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet on 22 July 1862. Given the criticism directed at Lincoln for moving too slowly on the issue of emancipation, it is worth noting that this first reading took place just sixteen months after he had pledged not to 'interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.' He continued to revise the document throughout the summer and, following the Union victory at Antietam, he issued the preliminary proclamationâ"which managed to balance daring with prudenceâ"on 22 September. This first proclamation essentially gave the Rebel States one hundred days to return to the Union, after which period any slaves within their borders would be "then, thenceforward, and forever free." Any rebellious states that returned to the Union in the interim would be able to adopt immediate or gradualâ"and compensatedâ"abolition of slavery within their borders." (Sotheby's). The front page of this newspaper also contains two maps and reports of the campaigns in Kentucky. HBS 68870. $3,500.- $3,500
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Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie.
GERARD, John Full Description: GERARD, John. The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie. London: [Edm. Bollifant for Bonham and] John Norton, 1597. First edition. Folio. (12 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 315 x 210 mm). [20], 1392, [34 index] pp. Engraved title-page by William Rogers with woodcut arms verso. Engraved portrait of Gerard by Rogers. With more than 2,000 woodcut illustrations of plants in the text, numerous woodcut historiated initials and head- and tailpieces. Bound without the final 19 leaves (5e2-5i4) which comprise all the English indexes. The Latin indexes are present. There are numerous mispaginations, but collation is correct and complete for the text. Full 19th century mottled calf, rebacked with original spine preserved. Spine with two original red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Boards double ruled in blind. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. dentelles tooled in blind. Rubbing and flaking to spine and board edges. Title-page trimmed close at bottom margin, touching lower part of engraving. Some minor repairs to upper outer corner of title-page. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Front free endpaper with remnants of bookplate. Some minor, light old ink marginalia. Overall a very clean, good copy. "Gerard's famous Herball, important among other things for having the first illustration of the potato" (Hunt). Gerard was the keeper of gardens for William Cecil, first Baron Burghley, and curator of the physic garden of the College of Physicians, London. Most of the woodcuts had been previously published, many in the 1590 Frankfurt edition of Tabernaemontanus's Eicones plantarum, but about sixteen, including that of the potato, were cut for Gerard's text. "The first edition of Gerard's herbal [1597] held the field without a competitor for more than a generation. It was not until it began to noised abroad that a certain John Parkinson would soon produce a new herbal to take its place, that the successors of Gerard's original publisher were brought to the point of undertaking a second edition." (Arber, Herbals, p. 134). Henrey 154. Hunt 174. Nissen, BBI, 698. STC 11750. HBS 69100. $3,500.- $3,500
- $3,500
Great Charter and Charter of the Forest with other Authentic Instruments To Which is Prefixed an Introductory Discourse, Containing the History of the Charters.
BLACKSTONE, Sir William Full Description: BLACKSTONE, Sir William. The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest with other Authentic Instruments. To Which is Prefixed an Introductory Discourse, Containing the History of the Charters. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1759. First edition. Folio (12 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 322 x 235 mm). [4], lxxvi, [4], 86 pp. With engraved dedication page and numerous engraved vignette tail-pieces and engraved historiated initials illustrating buildings at Oxford. With a separate half-title for the "Magna Carta" and table of contents (Tabula) bound between pp lxxvi and 1. Full 19th Century tan paneled calf. Boards ruled in blind. Spine with red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in blind. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red. Some rubbing to extremities and corners a bit bumped. Free endpapers reinforced at the front and back. Some light toning to a few pages. The first seven leaves (title, dedication and pages i-x) with repairs to the inner margin and the fore-edges reinforced. Fore-edge of leaf h2 also reinforced. Some small short closed tears to some fore-edges throughout, not touching text. A few cases of marginal worming, again not touching text. Some of the leaves are a bit fragile and torn at the fore-edge, but still a very good copy. "A work of the highest importance for the historian and constitutional lawyer" (David Walker, Oxford Companion to Law). "This work was immediately embraced not only for its scholarship, but also for the highly aesthetic printing. The introductory essay, which represents about half of the volume, is influenced by Lord Coke's interpretation of Magna Carta as the foundation of English liberties. Blackstone's original contributions includes a close examination of the versions of Magna Carta, and represents the first demonstration that all subsequent versions of the charter were based on the 1225 re-issue of Henry III, rather than the original endorsed by King John in 1215. His approach was highly influential and it established the textual focus that has governed subsequent study of the charter. Blackstone also created the numbering system that is still in use" (Utexas dot edu) ESTC T143723. Rothschild 406. HBS 69093. $2,500.- $2,500
- $2,500
California and Oregon Trail Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life.
PARKMAN, Francis Full Description: PARKMAN, Francis. The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition, first issue, terminal catalogue B, binding A. Binding A is noted on first printing sheets only according to BAL Parkmans's name on spine without serif. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 186 x 127 mm). [2, ads], [3]-448, [8, ads] pp., With sepia-tinted lithographed frontispiece and title-page, both by F. O. C. Darley. Publisher's blue-green blind-stamped cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Corners slightly bumped. Boards and spine with sunning. Mild foxing to fore-edge of text block. Some occasional finger soiling to leaves, but otherwise text is very clean. Old bookseller blindstamp to front free endpaper. Overall an about fine copy of the superlatively scarce first issue in unrestored cloth. Housed in a blue custom cloth clamshell, by the Lakeside Press with red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Parkman's reasons for traveling the Oregon Trail in 1846 were to restore his health, as well as to learn more about Indian life and gather information that would be useful in writing the history he planned of the conflict between the French and the British in North America. The result of his travels ended up to be a very different story, one part history and two parts travel narrative and adventure story. He, along with his traveling companion Quincy Adams Shaw started their journey in New York, then across Kansas and Nebraska, and then to Fort Laramie, where Parkman went to join a band of Sioux. He lived and traveled with them in the 'Black Hills' (i.e. the Laramie Mountains). "This is the portion of the narrative which is not only the most vivid but also of greatest historical value.Parkman has given us a unique picture of life in a Sioux village before it was changed and eventually destroyed by contact with the white man." (Printing and The Mind of Man, p. 199). Due to ill health when Parkman arrived home, he dictated his account of their journey to Shaw. The first publication was serialized, beginning in February 1847 in irregular monthly episodes in the Knickerbocker Magazine under the title 'The Oregon Trail, or A Summer's Journey Out of Bounds. The title was changed by the publisher in hopes that he could capitalize on the publics interest in the California gold rush. The first edition of one thousand copies appeared in March and sold out in a month. This is one of the great literary and historical narratives of the American experience and "the classic account of the emigrant journey to the Rockies" (Grolier). This controversial text has remained a classic of the American West despite criticism directed at it. In part enthusiastic and in part pessimistic, the work offers a microcosm of the changes then taking place at the far western reaches of U.S. expansion. Particularly debated since its publication has been Parkman's view of Native Americans. Although he apparently successfully lived with a tribe of Sioux, he pronounced Native Americans a doomed people. In any case, this is the opening chapter of a highly successful literary career. BAL 15446. Grolier, 100 American, 58. Howes P97. Printing and the Mind of Man 327. Sabin 58801. Wagner-Camp 170:1b. HBS 69095. $6,000.- $6,000
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America’s Lecacy [sic] Being the Address of G. Washington, on his Declining a Re-election to the Presidency, to the People of the United States
WASHINGTON, George Full Description: WASHINGTON, George. America's Lecacy [sic]: Being the Address of G. Washington, on his Declining a Re-election to the Presidency, to the People of the United States. Hudson: A. Stoddard, 1797. [Together with] Circular Letter from His Excellency George Washington, commander in chief of the armies of the United States of America, to the Governors of the several States. Hudson: A. Stoddard, 1797. [Which contains] Farewel Orders of General Washington, to the armies of the United States. Rocky Hill, Near Princeton, November 2, 1787 [and] The Answer To His Excellency George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America [West-Point, November 15, 1783]. The rare first edition of Stoddard's printing in book form of Washington's Farewell Address announcing that he would not seek a third term as president. Originally published in David C. Claypoole's Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796. The speech is dated "17th Sept. 1796." Also the first printing of these two Washington addresses together. Four speeches in one twelvemo volume (5 x 3 1/8 inches; 127 x 80 mm). [1]-200, [2, blank] pp. Four works, but continuous pagination. With a half-title for America's Lecacy and separate title-pages for America's Lecacy and A Circular Letter. The Circular is Washington's famous official address resigning his command of the US army. The last separate copy of the "Circular Letter" at auction was in 1994. A copy of the 200 page edition was sold in 1937 and was called "very rare." Contemporary full sheep. Spine with original red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Top edge dyed brown. Spine with some chipping and flaking. Some repairs along outer hinges and spine. Internally very clean. Overall a very nice copy. Housed in a full red morocco clamshell. "In September 1796, worn out by burdens of the presidency and attacks of political foes, George Washington announced his decision not to seek a third term. With the assistance of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Washington composed in a "Farewell Address" his political testament to the nation. Designed to inspire and guide future generations, the address also set forth Washington's defense of his administration's record and embodied a classic statement of Federalist doctrine. Washington did not publicly deliver his Farewell Address. It first appeared on September 19, 1796, in the Philadelphia Daily American Advertiser and then in papers around the country." (United States Senate Historical Office). "Following the speech's initial publication in the American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796, regional printers rushed copies into print. Ashbel Stoddard (1763-1840) was one of these. In 1797, he published two issues of Washington's farewell address. [it] was assembled in such haste that Stoddard did not have the opportunity to correct the egregious misspelling on the title page ("Lecacy" for "Legacy")." (Bonhams). Howes W128. Sabin 101591. HBS 69096. $10,000.- $10,000
- $10,000
Himalayan Journals Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.
HOOKER, Joseph Dalton Full Description: HOOKER, Joseph Dalton. Himalayan Journals. Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. Londom: John Murray, 1854. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm). xxvii, [1], 408, [32 ie 30 publisher's ads]; xii, 487, [1, colophon] pp. With two colored folding maps, thirteen color plates, one of which is folding, and including two frontispieces. Numerous illustrations in the text, six of which are full page but included in the pagination. Half-titles and errata slips in each volume. With publisher's 32-page catalogue dated January 1854 at end of Volume 1, but catalog is lacking one leaf (pg 13-14) and the bottom third of page 21-22. With dedication to Charles Darwin. Publisher's original full brick cloth. Boards tooled in blind with a gilt central device on front boards. Stamped in blind on back boards. Spines stamped in blind and lettered in gilt Top edges dyed brown, others uncut. Brick red coated endpapers with printed publisher's ads. Volume one with back inner hinge cracked and some splitting to cloth on back outer hinge. Front inner hinge of volume II cracking. Spines a bit sunned, corners bumped. Some chipping and fraying to heads and tails of spines. A few plates with light dampstaining to margin, not affecting illustration. Still overall a very good copy. J.D. Hooker was an "eminent botanist, explorer and mountaineer who had earlier been with Ross in the Antarctic, and was a close confidant of Charles Darwin, to whom this work is dedicated. He was the first naturalist to travel into the Sikkim Himalaya, through mostly unknown territory which had not been reached by an Englishman since Turner's mission to Tibet in 1789. He made the first near complete circuit of Kangchenjunga in 1848-50, and the first to describe it. The maps were made from his own surveys and the illustrations and views are from his own drawings." (Hindman) Abbey Travel 502; DSB VI, 489; Neate H108 ("a classic of Himalayan travel and exploration"); Yakushi (1994) H399a. HBS 69091. $1,750.- $1,750
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