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[Collection of Photographs and Clothing Related to an Outlaw Motorcycle Club]

[Collection of Photographs and Clothing Related to an Outlaw Motorcycle Club]

Mostly Georgia, 1984. Very good +. Eight commercial photo albums with mylar-covered gummed leaves containing a combined 969 color photos + large embroidered riding scarf, four jacket patches and a painted, heavily used helmet. Most photos measure approximately 3½" x 5" to 4" x 6" and around fifteen percent or more are captioned on versos. Generally very good plus or better, one of the albums good only due to water damage, a couple of albums a bit grubby as well; photos generally near fine or better. This is a collection of nearly 1,000 photographs and a few other items compiled by an outlaw biker from Georgia. Someone self-identifies in one of the albums, and there's a pistol license as well as an addressed envelope with the same name, but we can't be sure he's the compiler. At least two albums are from 1976 and 1977, and a lot of the photos in those albums involve members of The Outlaws; the other six albums, as well as the patches and helmet, focus on the Remaining Few South Georgia (RFSG) chapter. The present incarnation of RFSG may not be the same as those shown in these albums, but The Remaining Few exists today as a non-profit established in 2009 and its Facebook page shows many examples of philanthropic rides for noble causes. The groups shown in these albums may have had a philanthropic side as one photo implies they participated in a toy drive, but these albums depict nothing but riding, rallying and partying. And funerals-there are at least four different series showing members gathering at tombstones or freshly marked graves. Many photos show members hanging around a clubhouse. They are heavy in partying images, but also show members relaxing, playing pool and simply acting silly. Close examination of the walls of the clubhouse can provide a lot of insight into the ethos of the club as we see a lot of Nazi and Confederate imagery and there's a bunch of handwriting on the walls to be read. There are also many shots in the woods where they held campouts and cookouts. We see members passed out, and treated appropriately with varying degrees of magic marker on their faces, and at least two show a man with his penis out over the head of a snoozing fellow biker. Many photos show female members, sometimes seen wearing jackets reading "Property of" a particular motorcycle club. At least 25 photos show nude women including a series where several of them are dancing fully nude inside a clubhouse. A couple of these include body paint. A bevy of images show individual bikes, treasured tattoos and several show the act of tattooing. One great shot shows a member whose back is completely covered in ink. Images at rallies (one of which is identified as "Southern Jam" in June 1984) include shots of other outlaw motorcycle clubs as well as rides all over Georgia. One album has around eight great intentional multiple exposures and there's a series showing a small outdoor music festival, possibly showing Willie Nelson performing and including three images of Jimmy Carter. Another series shows members skinny dipping. Some photos are captioned verso, though we've only lifted a few and have little idea of the total-a reasonable estimate is around 100 or so have captions. Often it's simply a date, but some have a little more detail, and some listed member names such as "Spider," "Paranoid," "Buzzard," "Lazy," and "Gorilla." The collection is accompanied by a helmet, scarf and a few patches. The helmet is fantastic: it's colorfully painted with the logo of the Remaining Few and shows signs of heavy, heavy use. The large black and orange scarf is embroidered with "RFFR" and presumably the former owner's initials. Also included is a middle insignia embroidered with multicolored threads, top and bottom rockers and an embroidered small "M.C." patch. A large trove of images, with some artifacts, shedding light on the inner workings of outlaw bikers in Georgia during the mid-70s and 80s.
  • $7,500
  • $7,500
[Materials Relating to the First Woman Elected to the United States Congress]

[Materials Relating to the First Woman Elected to the United States Congress]

Rankin, Jeannette Washington, D.C., 1942. Very good. Group of 16 pieces of ephemera measuring between 3¼" x 5½" and 11½" x 9". Most items very good: one with a tiny tear and moderate creasing at edges, not affecting any text; a few with light edge wear and a few small soil spots; some scattered light spotting. This is a fantastic group of speeches, ephemera and campaign materials related to the first woman to be elected to national office in the United States, Jeannette Rankin. Jeannette Rankin was born in 1880 near Missoula, Montana and graduated from the University of Montana in 1902. After a brief period as a social worker in Spokane, she moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington and became involved in the women's suffrage movement. She helped organize the New York Woman Suffrage Party, served as president of the Montana Women's Suffrage Association and as field secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In 1911, Rankin became the first woman to speak before the Montana legislature. In 1916 she ran for the state's seat in the House of Representatives, and became the first woman elected to the United States Congress. Her vote against entry into World War I likely cost her re-election, and Rankin went to work as field secretary for the National Consumers League and later as legislative secretary for the National Council for Prevention of War (NCPW). She bought a farm in Georgia, founded the Georgia Peace Society, lobbied and lectured around the country on behalf of various pacifist groups. As World War II loomed, Rankin once again ran for Montana's seat in the House, winning election in 1940. She was the only member of Congress to vote against entry into the war and again was not re-elected to a second term. Rankin went on to study pacifist teachings in India and mobilize against the Vietnam War, inspiring an all-women's protest group who became known as the Jeannette Rankin Brigade. In 1968 she led the Brigade on an anti-war march in Washington, D.C., the largest march by women since the Suffrage Parade of 1913. Rankin died in 1973 and as of 2023 is still the only woman to be elected to Congress from Montana. This collection contains Rankin's speeches, statements and excerpts of speeches from both her terms in Congress. Several include their original distribution envelopes, featuring her printed signature in the top right corner. The speeches cover issues such as federal farm loans, wages and working conditions for women, food conservation, war risk insurance for the wives of soldiers with children, and government control of mines. There is also an extract from Rankin's statement to Congress when she was working for NCPW, regarding the Navy Department Appropriation Bill of 1936. A campaign postcard urges Republican voters to "Keep Our Men Out of Europe" and a pamphlet was addressed to the "Women of America": "The Choice is Yours - Shall it be Peace or War?" There are two blank pieces of Rankin's stationery, one of which listed her committees, and a typed circular letter from the President of the American Federation of Labor urging Montana voters to "give every aid" in electing Rankin to a second term. Only one of these documents were located in OCLC: the extract regarding the Navy Appropriation Bill, with three holdings. Harvard holds a collection of Rankin's papers, but the finding aid notes that the collection is lacking in terms of her career - it mostly contains family papers, some correspondence and news clippings. There are also small collections related to Rankin at the University of Montana and at Swarthmore, similarly sparse and mostly comprised of secondary materials. A fantastic group of primary documents revealing the work and words of the first female member of Congress.
  • $2,500
  • $2,500
[Photographs of the Heard Museum Indian Fair]

[Photographs of the Heard Museum Indian Fair]

Phoenix, Arizona, 1969. Near fine. 24 contact sheets each measuring 8" x 10", with a total of 196 images; three 8" x 10" photographs are also included. Most images measure 3" x 2½". Generally near fine or better; five of the contact sheets are trimmed and missing a few images each. This is a collection of photographs related to an art fair and other events at the Heard Museum in April 1969. The museum was initially founded in 1929 and closed for eight months beginning in the summer of 1968. It reopened with a gala on March 29, 1969. Per contemporary news accounts, that reopening coincided with "a 10-day celebration featuring dances and arts and crafts displays by tribes from the United States, Canada and Mexico." The photos here document the events of the celebration with all but a few showing Native Americans and/or their art. Approximately 85 shots are devoted to an arts and crafts fair where we see Native Americans exhibiting their works for sale. Identified vendors include Navajo Community College and Philip Cassadore. Cassadore was a musician who made several records related to Apache songs and music. Other images here include a sand painting demonstration, a woman weaving a rug, and several show Native artists sketching or painting. The non-art show images show Native Americans in traditional clothing participating in dances, some show an awards ceremony, and others show some of the smaller events of the festival. The three 8x10s each show a Native American in traditional clothing. Terrific images of an under-documented Native American event at the Heard Museum.
  • $750
[Photo Album of a Student at the University of Illinois.]

[Photo Album of a Student at the University of Illinois.]

England, Gladys Veatrice Illinois, 1930. Good. 11¼" x 14¼". String tied leather over flexible card, embossed with "University of Illinois" medallion. 32 pages with 54 black and white photographs adhesive mounted and another 26 laid in + approximately 50 items of ephemera. Most photos measure 4½" x 2¾" and a few are captioned. Album good: moderate wear, string tie renewed, most leaves loose; photos and ephemera generally very good. This is a scrapbook compiled by a young African American woman from Illinois, Gladys England. It covers her years of college and early adulthood. We learn a bit about Gladys from her handwritten text in the beginning of the album which begins with a transcription of William Ernest Henley's poem, "Invictus." That's followed by this musing: "I know that I am responsible for my actions. I will accept this responsibility and play the woman. I will not be ever seeking excuses for my weakness. I know I do not understand all the secret springs of the acts of others, hence I will be charitable in my judgments . . . I know that the world is managed by a power and a will not of myself and greater than myself, hence will try to understand and conform to it . . . I know that whatever God may be, a constant effort to do right is the only way to secure his approval. Whatever wrong I may have committed, He becomes my friend when I begin to do right . . . If we have choice thoughts to express, now is the time to express them. If we have energy for achievement, now is the time to release it. If we have beautiful emotions involving those we love, now is the time to liberate them. Let us live now. In five minutes the tide of affairs may be moving us in another direction." The next several pages have 55 classmate signatures and addresses. The signers included their hometown, nickname and a short thought or quote and the vast majority of students were from Mounds. At the time, Mounds had reached its peak population of a little over 2,000 people and today the community is over sixty-percent African American. Gladys also listed a group of important events beginning with the University of Illinois homecoming in 1924, her marriage in 1927, and the birth of her son in 1930. The photos show Gladys and her friends around campus and homes. There's a series showing the group posing with a stringed instrument, others show them playing tennis, and several show them wading through a flood. There's also an exceptional 8"x10" portrait of several women which we presume includes Gladys. Important ephemera include five items related to Alpha Phi Alpha including an engraved dance invitation, dance card and her pledge ribbon. There are also several other invitations from Black fraternities or sororities. Also notable is a one page program for "An Effort Toward Better Racial Relations" and invitations to events for a few little known African American groups, the Tri-City Commercial Club in Cairo, Illinois, the Chancellor Club and The Imperial Social Club. A lovely album, with important ephemera, documenting a young African American woman's time at the University of Illinois.
  • $2,250
  • $2,250
[Six Scarce Issues of] The Indian Leader.] together with [28 Pieces of Ephemera Related to the Haskell Institute]

[Six Scarce Issues of] The Indian Leader.] together with [28 Pieces of Ephemera Related to the Haskell Institute]

Lawrence, Kansas: Haskell Institute, 1938. Very good. 10¾" x 7¾". Stapled wrappers. Pp. 32-55. Publication sequence: Commencement Numbers: Vol. 37, No. 40 (Jun 8 1934); Vol. 38, No. 37-38 (May 24 1935); Vol. 40, No. 37 (Jun 18 1937); Vol. 41, No. 36 (Jun 17 1938); Fiftieth Anniversary Homecoming Souvenir Program (Nov 10-12 1934); Fiftieth Anniversary Number: Vol. 38, No. 11-12 (Nov 23 1934). Generally very good or better: some light spotting and staining to wrappers, two with inked name of former owner; a few small stains, scattered light spotting and creases. Together with: [28 Pieces of Ephemera Related to the Haskell Institute]. Lawrence, Kansas: [circa 1930]-1938. Items range from 5" x 2" to 7¾" x 10¾". Generally very good. This is a collection of rare printed ephemera documenting the Haskell Indian boarding school, as well as six scarce issues of its official news publication, The Indian Leader. The issues also function as heavily photographically illustrated programs for four years' commencements as well as the school's 50th anniversary celebration. Haskell Institute was founded in 1884 as a residential boarding school for Native American children in Lawrence, Kansas. It is now a college serving members of federally recognized Native tribes known as Haskell Indian Nations University, and is the oldest continually operating federal school for American Indians. The Indian Leader is the world's oldest Native American school newspaper, and students from Haskell's print shop were responsible for its printing from the start. In the 1930s, Dr. Henry Roe Cloud, a Yale graduate and the school's first Native American Superintendent, named himself the paper's editor-in-chief. The Leader of those years, and the ones on offer here, was known for its high quality of reporting, focusing on global current events, general happenings around Haskell and within the United States government, sports and student life, and social news regarding the school's alumni, faculty and staff. The present issues of The Indian Leader are significant not just for their scarcity and physical condition, but also for their vivid documentation of specific and important school events. Four of the issues are deemed a special "Commencement Number," and serve as a combination newspaper, yearbook and graduation program for the years of 1934, '35, '37 and '38, respectively. Also present is the "Fiftieth Anniversary Number" of 1934 and that same year's "Fiftieth Anniversary Homecoming Souvenir Program." The books are rich with photographic images and detailed narrative, providing histories of the school, faculty and staff reports, commencement addresses, news of former students and of other Native schools and agencies. There are group portraits and lists of "Commercial," "Vocational" and "High School" graduates, identifying hometowns, tribal affiliations and placements into new fields of work. Each issue reveals student clubs and activities with a large focus on sports, including shots of teams and individual athletes, rosters, schedules and scores. There are dozens of great images of students training for new trades such as child care, cooking, carpentry, gardening, plumbing, printing and "arts and crafts." We meet the winner of "Posture Queen" three years running, the students voted "Campus Brave" and "Campus Queen," and the 1938 book has a full-page aerial shot of the campus. The "Fiftieth Anniversary Homecoming Souvenir Program" ran a summary of the "Pageant of the Wa-ka-rusa" as well as the game's starting line-up, "Band Concert Program and Line of March For Parade." There were photos and bios of coaches and athletes, one page introducing the South Dakota competition, updates on "Former Haskell Football Stars," a few ads and lists of contributors. The "Fiftieth Anniversary Number" reported that Haskell had won the game, and there is a shot of the team in Indian headdresses. It also covered the "Throng at Haskell's Golden Jubilee," the "Potawatomi Celebration" and an Armistice Day address by Kansas State Senator Arthur Capper. Nearly every book ended with a colophon noting that it had been "put into type and printed by students in the Haskell Print Shop." This collection also documents day-today life at the school, with a number of printed invitations, programs and ephemera. These include a list of "Worth While Books For High School Students" and a grammar card, "Compliments of the English Department," as well as programs for musical performances, graduation exercises, religious services and a student awards ceremony. Five items announced the school's upcoming 50th anniversary, including a flyer of "Interesting Facts About Haskell." Several of the items (and at least two of the issues of the Leader) belonged to a teacher in Haskell's Home Economics department, Lora Mendenhall. Mendenhall had previously taught at Chilocco, and left Haskell to become head of Home Ec at the Concho school near El Reno, Oklahoma in 1939. While The Indian Leader is generally well-represented in institutions, exact OCLC holdings are difficult to ascertain. We conducted a thorough search and determined that the present issues are likely to be held at fewer than ten institutions. OCLC shows two additional entries for holdings of Commencement Number issues, but none with the ones here, and we found no entries for either of the Fiftieth Anniversary issues. Similarly, we found only one holding of any of the present ephemera: a "Haskell Institute Celebrates Fiftieth Anniversary" announcement, at the Kansas City Public Library. A detailed inventory is available.
  • $4,750
  • $4,750
[Belly Dancer Photo Album and Scrap Book]

[Belly Dancer Photo Album and Scrap Book]

Burnham, Joan Michigan, 1982. Very good. 15" x 12". Full leather post binder. 128 pages with 423 photographs, 143 items of ephemera and a few dozen news clippings. Photos are in a range of sizes, most are in color and most are captioned. Album very good with light wear and lightly toned leaves; contents generally near fine or better. This is a massive scrapbook documenting international dance culture throughout the state of Michigan with an emphasis on belly dancing in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. It was compiled by Joan "Mikola" Burnham of Kalamazoo. Per the scrapbook, Joan was the wife of an attorney and started a small business around 1975, the Belly Dance Academy of Kalamazoo, (BDAK). While we don't know when Joan started in belly dancing, the book shows that when she decided to make a business of it, it took off immediately. Per the scrapbook, BDAK's first workshop was held March 13, 1976. That seminar also featured a famous dancer named "Süheyla" was held at a Kalamazoo YWCA and featured an Arab makeup demonstration as well as a bazaar. In the eight years covered by this book, Joan compiled documentation which shows she helped expose thousands to belly dancing and other international forms of dance such as Egyptian, Tunisian and Bedouin. The book also documents other women-owned businesses and performers as Joan performed with a number of other groups, and nearly every dance group documented here was led by a woman. The book has flyers and event programs from dozens of shows, from hypnosis conventions to Middle Eastern festivals, mall openings to women's club demonstrations. There are also two rare books of poetry -one related to prisoners, another written by a belly dancer. The book has performance contracts, correspondence and thank yous, and some exposure to national dance events and conferences as well. The album also shows that Joan reached out to important dancers asking for tips and written materials. The photos are devoted almost exclusively to dance demonstrations including two shots of performing for a Jerry Lewis telethon in Kalamazoo. Some show outside gatherings of dancers, and a couple show dancers getting dressed and madeup. We'll note here that the photos also document hundreds of authentic costumes. A massive and comprehensive resource documenting international dance communities of Michigan, with an emphasis on belly dancing and women-owned businesses.
  • $2,500
  • $2,500
Les fables d'Esope

Les fables d’Esope, avec cent vingt-trois figures dÕapr s Barlow. Collection de gravures piquantes et dÕapologues ing nieux pour lÕamusement et lÕinstruction de la jeunesse.

Aesop. Barlow (ca. 1626 Ð 1704), a painter, etcher, and illustrator, is known as Òthe father of British sporting paintingÓ and was ÒBritainÕs first wildlife painter, beginning a tradition that reached a high-point a century later, in the work of George Stubbs. He was furthermore a pioneer in the history of comics by creatingÊA True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish PlotÊ(c. 1682), a picture story about the life of Titus Oates and the Popish Plot, which is told in a series of illustrated sequences where the story is written underneath them and the characters depicted on those images use speech balloons to talkÓ (Tate Britain website). BarlowÕs edition of Aesop was published by William Godbid in 1666. Few copies of the first edition remain, as many of them were destroyed (along with the printerÕs premises) in the Great Fire of London the same year the edition was published. Two volumes in one, oblong octavo. xvi, 95; iv, 149 in. With 123 full-page engravings by Francis Barlow (including the two frontispieces, one for each volume). Early marbled boards with green roan spine stamped in gilt. Quite clean throughout despite occasional dampstaining and foxing. A very good, wide copy of a scarce edition. First edition from this publisher. Some OCLC records bear dates of 1801 or 1802 for this same edition, though the date on the title-page is Òan X,Ó i.e., 1810. The illustrations are copied from the original images by Barlow, which were first published in 1666. This attractive edition of Aesop features the stories retold for the Òamusement and instruction of the youth.Ó OCLC records only five copies of this Tardieu edition: four in the United States (Harvard, University of Southern Mississippi, Princeton, UCLA) and one in Germany (Staats- und Universit tsbibliothek Hamburg).
  • $1,250
  • $1,250
[Manuscript atlas.] First Course of Maps. Convent of the Holy Child Jesus. St. LeonardÕs-on-Sea.

[Manuscript atlas.] First Course of Maps. Convent of the Holy Child Jesus. St. LeonardÕs-on-Sea.

[ Connelly, Cornelia ]. Eyre, Julia Mary. Connelly was born in Philadelphia and spent the first twenty-five years of her life as a Protestant. She married Pierce Connelly, an Episcopal priest, in 1831, and the couple both converted to Catholicism in 1835. Their marriage was tumultuous, involving multiple crises of faith by Pierce, who was pursuing Catholic priesthood, and the deaths of two of their young children. In 1845, the couple moved to England, with Pierce taking the position of chaplain to Lord Shrewsbury. In England, Connelly began drawing up rules for a new religious order, which she established as the Society of the Holy Child Jesus in Derby in October of 1846. In 1848, Connelly relocated the orderÕs mother house to St. LeonardÕs-on-Sea in Sussex, leading to the establishment of the convent there. The Society was approved in 1887 by Pope Leo the XIII, and, over the course of the next century, Sisters of the order opened schools and convents in the United States (1862), Nigeria (1930), Ghana (1947), Chile (1967), Chad (1992), and the Dominican Republic (1995). In 1959, Connelly was proposed for beatification, and she was proclaimed Venerable by Pope John III in 1992. 6 x 9 in. [43] ff. With forty hand-drawn, partially colored maps annotated in calligraphic hand. Also, with a manuscript title-page with large calligraphic initial in red, blue, and gold and a page illustrated with the arms of Great Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, and the Papal States. The maps illustrated here include both physical and political maps of Europe, Britain, several individual European nations, South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Palestine. Plus, maps of Asia, Africa, Australia, Central America, Russia, the United States, and more. Full green morocco stamped with gilt initials ÒJ.M.E.Ó Gilt spine with raised bands in five compartments. Binding somewhat sunned and bumped, with some scratches and some wear at edges of boards. Still a clean, bright item, remarkably fresh and attractive. Very good. Date estimated from paper watermark (J. Whatman, 1863). This unique, beautifully illustrated manuscript atlas was produced by a student at the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, a Catholic teaching convent and religious order founded by the American-born educator Cornelia Connelly, nŽe Peacock (1809 Ð 1879). At the convent, which Connelly opened in St. LeonardÕs-on-Sea 1848 after leaving St. MaryÕs Church in Derby, students were instructed not just in theology but also in geology and other sciences, Greek and Latin philosophy, art, dance, and music. The impressive artistry and attention to detail present in these maps clearly speak to the educational standards established by Connelly in the convent, where young women trained to be teachers as well as nuns. The date of the present item suggests that Julia Mary Eyre may have been instructed by Connelly herself, or at least by the Sisters working under her direct supervision. ÒBrief History of the Society.Ó Society of the Holy Child Jesus (webpage). ÒConvent of the Holy Child Jesus, Magdalen Road, St LeonardÕs-on-Sea, school diariesÓ (catalogue description). The National Archives (webpage).
  • $1,850
  • $1,850
A Late Offering of Quince

A Late Offering of Quince

[Laguna Verde Press. Ritchie, Ward]. A foreword explains the origin of RitchieÕs ÒPeter Lum QuinceÓ pseudonym: ÒThe author obviously assumed his pseudonym from the Peter Quince created by Shakespeare. However, the irreverent printer, more interested in creating a pleasing title pageÉinserted the random letters LUM to balance the length of the wood engraving Paul Landacre had made for the title page. With like irreverence the printer removed the letter r from hearth in the bookÕs title, ÔFifteen Poems for the Heath Broom.Õ The judgement of the printer was vindicated when the book was selected as one of the Fifty Books of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Again Quince, now 85, offers fifteen poems with some early engravings by the late Paul Landacre.Ó Jake Chernofksy served as the editor and publisher of AB BookmanÕs Weekly between 1973 and his retirement (and subsequent suspension of the magazineÕs publication) in 1999. Chernofksy took over the management of the magazine from its founder, Sol Malkin, who had established the publication as Antiquarian Bookman in 1948. Chernofsky worked to regularize the magazineÕs publication (upping the circulation from forty weekly issues to fifty), expanded the staff, and provided a critical resource for booksellers for two decades. Along with Margaret Goggin, Lee Ash, and Frederich Praeger, Chernofsky was also involved with the establishment of the Colorado Seminar (now CABS-Minnesota), and taught one of the first CABS courses in 1979 Ð an extremely popular course on Òhow to pack books.Ó Chernofsky took over the seminar from Goggin in 1995. Octavo. 41 pp. Illustrated by Paul Landacre with woodcut headpieces and an array of small geometric woodcuts on title-page. Text printed in black by Ward Ritchie on an Albion handpress. Illustrations in red, orange, green, brown, and blue. Black paper wrappers with printed paper label. Wrappers a bit scuffed. Still a fine copy, inscribed on the half-title by Ritchie to Jake Chernofsky, longtime editor of AB BookmanÕs Weekly. One of fifty copies printed by Ward Ritchie on an Albion hand press. This is RitchieÕs penultimate publication. It is a collection of his own poetry, published under his long-standing pseudonym, Peter Lum Quince. This is the thirty-first publication of the Laguna Verde Imprenta. Silver, Joel. ÒExit Interview: Jake Chernofsky.Ó RBM: A Journal of Rare Books Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage (March 2000), pp. 77-82.
  • $650
An Anticipated History of the dramatis personae & events at the new Heavenly Monkey studio

An Anticipated History of the dramatis personae & events at the new Heavenly Monkey studio, 2016-2018.

[ Heavenly Monkey ]. This advance ÒhistoryÓ shares five planned projects from Heavenly Monkey: Anne BromerÕs XI LXIVMOS: Memoirs of a Bibliomidget (2015), Barbara HodgsonÕs Mrs. Delaney Meets Herr Haeckle (2016), Harold BuddÕs Aurora Tears (2016), Francesca LohmannÕs An Accumulated Alphabet (2017), and Josh BellÕs Sci-Fi Violence (2016, though possibly not published). In October of 2015, Rollin Milroy wrote in the Heavenly Monkey blog, ÒThe cover paper is Roma Fabriano. ItÕs a bizarre sheet in a patently non-HM color (pink), purchased for pennies on the dollar at the bankruptcy sale. The laid sheet (probably machine-made, doubtfully mould) has an exaggerated screen side that makes it useless for printing. It's been in the studio for ages. But the color matches nicely with HMÕs newly acquired stock of bronze ink, which will be re-appearing in the upcoming Harold Budd projectÓ (10/12/15). Later in the month, he wrote, regarding the cover overlay paper, ÒItÕs a lovely handmade gampi, with the printed title positioned to perfectly overlay the same line on the Roma wrap. Because the gampi is so thin, itÕs a little tricky fitting it around the book & getting it to stay in place - keeping the two lines in register - while sewingÓ (10/29/15). 7 x 10 in. [6] ff. With a leaf from the deluxe edition of XI LXIVMOS: Memoirs of a Bibliomidget (2 x 2 Ó) and a blue-and-gold marbled paper leaf. Also, with four engraved devices printed in bronze, gold, and silver. Printed on handmade Barcham Green Bodleian paper. Pink Roma Fabriano paper wrappers titled in black with handmade gampi paper overlay (also titled, exactly overlaying the printed title on the pink leaf). Black endpapers. Fine. One of twelve deluxe large paper copies (on Barcham Green paper, with the leaf from XI LXIVMOS). In a total edition of Òfifty-ishÓ copies. The colophon notes that Heavenly Monkey has relocated to a new studio in Chinatown, Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • $350
Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser. With Certain Imaginative Drawings by George Wharton Edwards

Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser. With Certain Imaginative Drawings by George Wharton Edwards

Spenser, Edmund; Edwards, George Wharton (illustrator); [Witkin, Lee D.] Limited edition, one of 450 copies printed by the DeVinne Press, of Edmund Spenser's ode to his bride Elizabeth Boyle, first published in 1595: "Set all your things in seemely good aray / Fit for so joyfull day, / The joyfulst day that ever sunne did see." The poem's twenty-four stanzas correspond to the hours of the wedding day, as Spenser describes the morning's preparations, the ceremony, the feast, and the final "safety of our joy" after nightfall. The decorative Art Nouveau binding and illustrations, informed by English private press book design, are the work of American painter George Wharton Edwards: "From cover to cover the book carries out one artistic scheme with the text, presenting a unique conception which is original with the artist" (Dodd, Mead & Company.) This edition of 450 copies was issued alongside a signed limited edition of 25 copies on vellum. Provenance: Lee D. Witkin, the influential New York gallerist who created the modern market for fine art photography before his early death from AIDS in 1984. A near-fine copy. Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 5.25: [60]. Original full pictorial vellum stamped in gilt and green; green and blue marbled endpapers. Title page printed in red and black; decorative borders and illustrations on every page. Bookseller label of Thos. V. Paul, Philadelphia, to front pastedown; penciled bookseller note to rear endpaper, "from library estate of Lee D. Witkin." With: original pale green pictorial cardboard box stamped in gilt, lined in coated white paper, original silk lifting ribbon. Vellum boards slightly bowed; volume no longer fits neatly in the publisher's box. Box rubbed and partly split at joint.
  • $400
La Gimnasia en Jardines y Habitaciones: ó Higene de los Ejercicios Razionados

La Gimnasia en Jardines y Habitaciones: ó Higene de los Ejercicios Razionados, sin Necesidad de Aparejos

Vallières, Louis de First edition of this Spanish pocket guide to health and fitness, part of Saturnino Calleja Fernández's "Biblioteca Popular" series. The book offers a visual introduction to calisthenics, featuring dynamic illustrations in which dotted lines indicate movements of the limbs. The prescribed exercises require no equipment, and can be performed anywhere, at any time: "Nuestro sistema, por tanto, carece de aparejos, puesto que cada uno los lleva consigo, pudiendo ejercitarse sin fatiga á la hora que mejor parezca y en el sitio que más convenga." The colorful cover, featuring a muscular woman hoisting a dumbbell and boys swinging from a trapeze, is therefore misleading, but the graphic appeal of this little book is characteristic of the ephemeral educational works for which Saturnino Calleja Fernández was known: the Madrid publisher issued enormous runs of inexpensive, portable volumes to schools, playing a particularly important role in impoverished areas of Spain. OCLC lists only one institutional holding, at El Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, Madrid. A near-fine survival. Single volume, measuring 4.5 x 3 inches: [7], 8-126, [2]. Original color pictorial lithographed boards; rear cover with elaborate publisher's device; spine titled in black with decorative border. Wood-engraved headpiece to preface, forty-one photoengraved black line drawings. Light toning and edgewear.
  • $300
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Twain, Mark Original red cloth. Two gatherings a little loose. Minor wear. A very good copy. Half morocco case. First edition of the iconic American Boy s Book. Twain s first novel written without a co-author, Tom Sawyer proved to be one of the most durable works in American literature. By the time of Twain s death, it was his top-selling book. It had been in print continuously since 1876, and has outsold all other Mark Twain works (Rasmussen). Tom Sawyer was the first printed story of a boy in which the hero was recognizable as a boy throughout the whole narrative until Tom Sawyer was written, nearly all the boys of fiction were adults with a lisp, or saintly infants, or mischievous eccentrics in the work of Dickens there were hints of boys that were boys; but Tom was the first full blown boy in all fiction the book is a landmark (Booth Tarkington). This novel of a boy growing up along the Mississippi River is set in a town called St. Petersburg, inspired by Samuel Clemens s hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. The author may have been named Tom after a San Francisco fireman whom he met in June 1863. The real Tom Sawyer was a local hero, famous for rescuing ninety passengers after a shipwreck in 1853. The two were friendly during the author s years in California, often drinking and gambling together. Twain referred to the real Tom Sawyer in Roughing It, but in later years he claimed that he himself was the model for Tom and that Sawyer was not the real name of any person I ever knew, so far as I can remember (see Smithsonian, October 2012). This first edition was issued in England on June 9, 1876, preceding the American edition by six months. It proved to be his most popular work in his lifetime: by the time Mark Twain died, it was his top selling book (Rasmussen, 458). The true first edition of Tom Sawyer is among the most difficult of the great 19th-century American novels to obtain in collector s condition.
  • $27,000
  • $27,000
Lo Statuto della Compagnia del Santissimo Sagramento in S. Nicolà dei Perfetti (Statutes of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Sacrament)

Lo Statuto della Compagnia del Santissimo Sagramento in S. Nicolà dei Perfetti (Statutes of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Sacrament), in Italian and Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment

CAREFULLY WRITTEN AND DECORATED UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT FROM AN ITALIAN CONFRATERNITY. In Italian and Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, Italy (Rome), c. 1736-1745. Dimensions 231 x 167 mm., 27 folios, complete, written in black ink in italic and in an upright script modelled on Roman font in 25 long lines, red rubrics, full decorative borders in black ink throughout, five 3-line and one 4-line initials in red ink with acanthus, one 6-line initial in black ink with acanthus, decorative tail pieces throughout. BINDING: original quarter leather binding with decorative paper covered boards. TEXT: This manuscript contains the statues for a confraternity in Rome, recording its regulations including the election of its chief officers, maintenance of the archives, care for the sick, funerary arrangements for deceased members, and so forth. Carefully written and decorated, this manuscript illustrates the interesting continuation of manuscript culture (in this case clearly influenced by the aesthetics of contemporary printed volumes) in the eighteenth century. PROVENANCE: Written and decorated in Rome for the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament in S. Nicol dei Perfetti, Rome; the Statutes were originally ratified c. 1736; additions at the end of the manuscript confirming reforms to the statutes are dated 1744-1745; auction and other notes, all in pencil, in several hands; later owned by Kroch's Bookstore, Inc., Chicago (typed description from Kroch's bookstore laid in). CONDITION: slight darkening to edges, binding with slight wear to corners of boards, first quire loosened from bottom cord, in otherwise very good condition. Full description and images available. (TM 1093)
  • $6,500
  • $6,500
Latin Bible

Latin Bible, part (Pauline and Catholic Epistles, Acts, Apocalypse); NICHOLAS OF LYRA, Postillae (Commentaries on the Pauline and Catholic Epistles, Acts, Apocalypse); in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper

Nicholas of Lyra MANUSCRIPT COMBINING A LATIN NEW TESTAMENT AND COMMENTARIES BY NICHOLAS OF LYRA. In Latin, decorated manuscript on paper, Northeastern Netherlands or Northwestern Germany, c. 1450-1475. Dimensions 275 x 198 mm., 383 folios, apparently complete, written in a formal cursive gothic bookhand without loops in two columns of 38 lines, red initials, nine- to fifteen-line blue or parted red and blue initials, added running titles, which continue to part two of the volume; ff. 146-end, copied in a very neat controlled hybrida script, red initials 3- to-10 line (occasionally blue), a few with pen decoration,10-line red initial, six 10-line parted red and blue initials. BINDING: seventeenth century(?) plain vellum over pasteboard with yap edges. TEXT: This sizeable volume combines a copy of the New Testament, lacking only the Gospels, with the Commentaries by Nicholas of Lyra on the same books of the New Testament. Although possibly of independent origin, these two sections are contemporary and were united very soon after they were copied. This is the only manuscript we know of that combines the two within one volume, but it is easy to see how readers benefited greatly by having these complementary texts together. PROVENANCE: Evidence of the script, decoration, and watermarks suggests the first part of the manuscript, with the biblical text, was copied in Northwestern Germany, c. 1450-1475; evidence of the watermarks and script suggest the second half of the manuscript with Nicholas of Lyra's postillae likely copied in the Northeastern Netherlands or in Northwestern Germany, c. 1460-1470; belonged to Johann Heinrich Joseph Niesert (1766-1841); later owners, Isaac H. Hall and S. B. Pratt. CONDITION: In very good overall condition, f. 1 slit at the bottom inner margin, frayed in the outer margin, ff. 145v-146 paper noticeably darkened, f. 383 frayed at the gutter, few worm holes, rare stains from damp top margin in the second half, last few pages a bit fragile in the inner margin, vellum at the front now detached from the pasteboard and curling up, front and back covers rather dirty and scuffed. Full description and images available. (TM 1089)
  • $70,000
  • $70,000
Viridarium Gregorianum sive Biblia Gregoriana

Viridarium Gregorianum sive Biblia Gregoriana, New Testament (A Garden or Bible of Gregory); in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment

JACOBUS FOLQUERIUS (JACQUES FOUQUIER) FOURTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF A RARE NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY COPIED BY A NAMED SCRIBE. In Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, Southwest Flanders or Hainaut (Tournai?), c. 1350. Dimensions 240 x 170 mm., 120 folios, complete, catchwords in red and brown ink, quire signatures, written by a single scribe in a university bookhand, scrolling cadels at top lines sometimes in human and animal forms, numerous red and blue/black penwork initials of five to seven lines. BINDING: Nineteenth-century marbled boards and doublures, parchment covering corners and spine, spine title in red and black with filigreed decoration in red. TEXT: A New Testament commentary, Jacobus Folquerius's Viridarium Gregoriana , mined from many of Gregory the Great's works, drawing occasionally on Alulfus of Tournai's Gregorialis . The text is known in only three other manuscripts; this copy was, until now, apparently unknown, and is certainly the only of its kind on the market. PROVENANCE: Based on the script, this manuscript was copied c. 1350 by a scribe trained in Southwest Flanders or Hainaut (Tournai?). The parchment's texture and penwork initials are also consistent with this region. The scribe, moreover, names himself on the final folio: "Hic liber est scriptus ludofus sit benedictus." Ludolfus is otherwise unknown. The Germanic name Ludolfus, coupled with the manuscript's northwestern physical features, is consistent with production in this region; an auction record indicates this manuscript was previously in a Bordeaux private collection, although the blue pencil note in English suggests an interruption in French ownership. CONDITION: some small spots and parchment discoloration occasionally clouding text, several original holes in parchment once stitched, rodent damage to bottom inner corner of last two quires, minor cockling of leaves due to tight binding, some chipping on binding cover, edges, and hinges, staining on front flyleaves and some ink transfer to flyleaves adjacent to book block, overall in good condition. Full description and images available. (TM 1054)
  • $85,000
  • $85,000
DECLARATION OF THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF ISRAEL. Iton Rishmi

DECLARATION OF THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF ISRAEL. Iton Rishmi

Folio. (4) pp. Unbound as issued, text in Hebrew, in near perfect condition. Very rare first edition first issue of the Israeli Declaration of Independence printed on the first day of the birth of Israel. This was the first publication rescinding the British White Paper. With the names of all of the signatories, headed by David Ben-Gurion, this document heralded the end of British involvement in Palestine, and the start of unrestricted immigration into the new Jewish state. It publishes for the very first time the full declaration as read out by Ben-Gurion at 4pm on Friday 14 May 1948 in the Tel-Aviv Museum. It announced that the National Council was to become the Provisional Government of Israel until a Constituent Assembly was formed on 1 October 1948. Iton Rishmi records all the decrees, ordinances and notices of the Israeli government, as well as the appointments of all government officials. Scarce first printing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the seminal historical document that establishes the first Jewish State in 2000 years. Contained in the first issue of the Official Gazette of the Israeli provisional government, this landmark publication was printed on the first day of the birth of Israel. Formally entitled the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, the Israeli Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on May 14 1948, by David Ben-Gurion, the executive head of the World Zionist Organization, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and, shortly after, the first Prime minister of Israel. It declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel. "The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here, their spiritual, religious, and national identity was formed. Here, they achieved independence and created a culture of national and universal significance. Here, they wrote and gave the Bible to the world. Exiled from Palestine, the Jewish people remained faithful to it in all the countries of their dispersion, never ceasing to pray and hope for their return and the restoration of their national freedom." Immediately following the British army withdrawal earlier on May 14, war broke out between Jews and Arabs. Egypt launched an air assault against Israel that same evening. Despite a blackout in Tel Aviv-and the expected Arab invasion-Jews celebrated the birth of their new nation, especially after word was received that the United States had recognized the Jewish state. At midnight, the State of Israel officially came into being upon termination of the British mandate in Palestine. "Using the American Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as philosophical frameworks, a small group of attorneys and politicians pieced together Israel's Declaration of Independence. On Friday, May 14, the National Council, established to oversee the political needs of the Jewish community in Palestine, voted to accept the final text of the Declaration. That afternoon at 4 pm, David Ben-Gurion, head of the National Council, read the Declaration at the Tel Aviv Museum. The Declaration was divided into four parts: 1) a biblical, historical, and international legal case for the existence of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel" 2) the self-evident right of the Jewish people to claim statehood 3) the actual declaration of statehood" and 4) statements about how the state would operate, including an enumeration of citizen rights. Very rare and sought-after first edition first issue of this seminal historical document that establishes the birth of the Jewish State. Very rare and sought-after.
  • $9,865
  • $9,865
DON SEBASTIAN

DON SEBASTIAN, KING OF PORTUGAL

DRYDEN, JOHN 217 x 170 mm. (8 1/2 x 6 3/4"). 8 p.l., 87, 96-132, [4] pp. (complete). Very fine dark green morocco by Lortic (stamped in gilt on front turn-in), covers with gilt coat of arms of the Comte de Penha Longa (with the motto 'Superabo'), raised bands, gilt titling, thick gilt turn-ins with multiple rules and decorative rolls, all edges gilt. Front pastedown with the book label of Marion C. Walker; verso of title and one other leaf with small ink stamp of the Selbourne Library; a couple of marginal pencil notations. Macdonald 89a; ESTC R16736; Pforzheimer 322. ◆Probably washed at the time of binding, faint browning and vague mottling due to paper quality, otherwise an especially fine copy, the text entirely clean, and the lustrous binding in virtually perfection condition. Esteemed by the Oxford Companion as "Dryden's most complex dramatic treatment of a number of important political, sexual, and religious themes," this tragicomedy involves various captures, reprieves, deaths, and, most notably, a renouncement of marriage vows at the end when the title character and his wife discover that their wedlock has been incestuous. It is of political pertinence that this was the author's first play to be written and staged after the Glorious Revolution (1688-89). As a Catholic convert, Dryden refused to pledge allegiance to the newly crowned Protestant William and Mary, and paid dearly for it--he was subsequently relieved of all appointments, including the title of poet laurate. "Don Sebastian" certainly ranks as one of Dryden's longest plays, but was successful in its day as "a powerful drama whose themes of friendship, loyalty, true kingship, and love thwarted by destiny carried contemporary resonances." (DNB) This is an especially nice copy, offered in an appealing binding. It is no surprise then that it once belonged to Hugh Selbourne (1906-73) was a respected Manchester physician and a passionate bibliophile with a notable library strong in the sciences. He was the owner of virtually all of Robert Boyle's works, and his care in choosing copies is reflected in the fact that his first printing of "The Sceptical Chymist" sold at Bonham's in 2015 for a remarkable £362,500.
  • $2,028
  • $2,028
Scenes From the Life of an American Jew (5 volumes): The Color of the Air

Scenes From the Life of an American Jew (5 volumes): The Color of the Air, The Waters of Darkness, A Very Good Land to Fall With, A Walk in the Fire, [and] The Season, It Was Winter

Sanford, John Five volumes (complete), octavo size, approx. 1500 total pp., each volulme one of the signed, limited publications. John Sanford (born Julian Lawrence Shapiro, 1904-2003) was awarded the a PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Lifetime Achievement Award for this five-volume, autobiographical work (originally envisioned to be only three volumes). Each volume in this set one of the Black Sparrow special signed, limited copies (see below for details). If read at all, it was done gently, as the books still have that "tight" feel. Loosely laid into the second volume is a small "Note Concerning John Sanford's Epic Trilogy" which summarizes the plot line of the first volume and announces the forthcoming third volume. ___DESCRIPTION: Each volume bound in decorated paper over boards with a cloth shelfback (each volume in different colours), Vol. One published in 1985, this no. 31 of 150 numbered copies (total HC edition 476), signed by on a page tipped onto the copyright page, in blue ink, using both names ("John Sanford / Julian Shapiro"), 301 pp.; Vol. Two pub. 1986, no. 30 of 150 numbered copies (total HC edition 476), signed as Vol. One, 289 pp.; Vol. Three pub. 1987, this no. 21 of 150 numbered copies (total HC edition 476), again signed as Vol. One, 296 pp.; Vol. Four pub. 1989, this no. 33 of 150 numbered copies (total HC edition 476), signed on the tipped-in page but solely as "John Sanford", 323 pp.; and Vol. Five pub. 1991, this no. 108 of 125 numbered copies (total HC edition 451), signed as Vol. Four, 296 pp. All volumes with the publisher's acetate wrapper, loosely laid into the second volume the publisher's "Note", a single sheet folded once to four pages, measuring 7 1/2" by 4 7/8". ___CONDITION: Volumes are uniformly fine, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, strong, square text blocks with solid hinges, the interiors clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean, crisp, and as new. The acetate wrappers near fine, clean, all with a small amount of rubbing to the soft plastic; the "Note" fine, clean and free of wear. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this set is unusually heavy and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
  • $250
John Henry Nash

John Henry Nash, Printer; Legend and Fact in the Development of a Fine Press, Intimately Reviewed

FauntLeRoy, Joseph One of 235 copies, octavo size, 79 pp. John Henry Nash (1871-1947) was one of the pre-eminent printers in the early part of the 20th century, printing high-quality editions at his printshop in San Francisco. He quickly gained a reputation for exceptional precision and attention to detail from his earliest years as a printer, when he was in complete charge of design and production for Paul Elder under the Tomoye Press imprint, and later formed a part of the firm Taylor, Nash and Taylor. He opened his own establishment in 1916 which he operated successfully until the early 30s, when, as a result of the changing economy following the Great Depression, continuing was no longer possible. This work provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of the man himself as well as his operation. Written by Joseph Fauntleroy who worked for Nash first as a compositor and subsequently as supervisor, his acquaintance with Nash over the span of many years gave him a unique view into both the person and work of John Henry Nash. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter tan linen spine with paper covered boards, paper spine label with black lettering, fore- and bottom edges uncut, frontis a tipped-in reproduction of a photograph of Nash by Will Connell, marginal chapter/book titles in red throughout, tipped-in reproduction of a photograph of FauntLeRoy by Lenhardt follows the introduction, first page of text with a lovely eight-line initial capital in blue and gold, Errata slip bound in at the colophon; octavo size (9" by 6 3/8"), pagination: [i-iii] iv-viii, [1] 2-71, limited edition of 235 copies, this no. 203. ___CONDITION: Near fine, with clean boards (other than a very small spot on the back board), straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright with most signatures unopened, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some marks to the cloth shelfback (may be offsetting from the glue used), spine label sunned and a bit rubbed (text still legible), front board very slightly bowed, and some light offsetting to the endpapers. Overall a better than very good copy of a fascinating look into John Henry Nash by a man who knew him likely about as well as any. ___CITATION: Harlan, "John Henry Nash, The Biography of a Career" p. 37. ___PROVENANCE: In pencil at the top of the rear pastedown is written "7/11/49 | Lawton Kennedy". Presumably this written by Kennedy himself, this may have been his copy (which could account for the unopened signatures). ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
  • $125
Ormus

Ormus

Langenes, Barend Copperplate engraving.Amsterdam, Barend Langenes, 1598.pp 85 and 86 from the atlas, Caert Tresoor.Copperplate engraving, 9x12 cm. Clear print. Unrestored in its original state.Description of Ormus (see below) is in verso of the map in Dutch. First map ever printed of the Persian Gulf as a stand alone. Extremely rare as only 13 copes of the original atlas are known to survive. In Sultan al Qasimi’s book the Langenes map is shown in an c 1610 example by Petrus Bertius. Only in its first edition of 1598 the map is presented without the framework of longitude and latitude, as is our map.Text in verso of the map: description of Ormus.On the limits of the Persian (Gulf) there is a mighty Kingdom called Ormus. It comprises a part of Persia that is watered by the rivers Tabo; Tuissindo and Druro and some islands at the inlet (of the Persian Gulf) and also a part of the Happy Arabia bordering the same Gulf. The capital is the island Ormus at the entrance of the Gulf, 12 miles out of the coast where the city of that name lies. .That is a beautiful mercantile city, better than any other (city) bordering the sea in the beauty of the place and the number of shops and exceptionally beautiful pearls.However, there is great scarcity of wheat and sweet water because the island is not fertile and gives no wheat. Thus, everything is transported to them. Trade flourishes there exceptionally and (merchants) come from Arabia; India and Persia. They bring silk; pearls and precious stones.There is a small mountain on this island that on one side has Sulphur mines, on the other side Salt mines.The inhabitants are rather beautiful, half Arab, half Persian who eat mainly rice and are lovers of music and the other arts. Their King is a Sarazin (?) and gives every year 15000 Seraphinen (= stones) to the Portuguese. The Portuguese have a strong and well equipped castle there. Bibliography: Al Qasimi. Sultan Bin Muhammad. The Gulf in Historic Maps 1493-1931. Thinkprint, Leicester, UK 1996
  • $6,726
  • $6,726
Zehenter Theil

Zehenter Theil

De Bry Th. Zehenter Theil der Orientalischen Indien Frankfurt, Beckers. 1613.Church 242; Muller 1878; Howego I, p. 873/74.Two parts in one.In folio, modern quarter calf and boards.Engraved title to the spine.The 3 maps in printed facsimile on contemporary paper. Mild browning slightly different per gathering. Maps and prints in excellent condition.Part one, text: A;B;C;D; and E in four that is 20 leaves of which the first leaf is the engraved title page and the last leaf an authentic blank. Three folding maps interleaved.Part two: a in four including a letter title page with two woodcut vignettes, thereafter 3 leaves with one plate each.The maps and plates are:(1) Tabula nautica ad Hudsono, anno 161(2) Vera delineatio tractus ex Hollandia (3) Tabula Septentrionalis Russiae Isaac Massa descripta est (1) Wardhusm, bird eye view map of the islan(2) Kilduyn , two bird eye views on one page.(3) Der Samojeden Götter ., plate with printed text.The text is: Henry Hudson, der neuen Schiffahrt uber die Amerische Inseln in Chinam und Japponiam, the new route to sail to China and Japan north of the American islands. Pp 10 & 11. Hudson’s fourth voyage North. In june 1611 he is put on a longboat by his crew in the Bay, named after him and is left there to die. Jan Huygen van Linschoten: short description of the islands to the North pp 12 & 13. Witness to his participation in the two (of three) voyages to find the NE passage by the Dutch in 1594 and 1595.Fernandez de Quiroz, Discurs an Ihn Konigliche Majestat in Spanien wegen des funfsten Theils der Welt, Terra Australis incognita Memorandum to the King of Spain on the firth part of the world, terra Australis. pp 14-21. One of Quiroz’s over 70- different memoranda, written between 1607 and 1614 (Howego) on his discoveries in the South Sea and referring to Terra Australis, the one translated here, was first published in Sevilla in 1610.Isaac Massa: Description of Siberia pp 21-37.This book is the German shortened version of Beschrijvinghe vander Samoyeden Landt .a collection of Dutch arctic voyages NE and NW as published by Hessel Gerrits in Amsterdam in 1612. Both the text and the maps are rare and of great importance.The maps are:The Tabula nautica, is considered the original map as made by Hudson on his last (1610-11) voyage NW that apparently fell into the hands of Hessel Gerrits, the East India Company map maker based in Amsterdam. His map of 1612 is bigger (c 25x54 cm) than ours of 1613 (15x33 cm) but further identical. The second map the Vera delineation ex Hollandiae ad fluvium Obys belongs to the short description by Jan Huygen van Linschoten.The same is true for the second map, the Tabula Septentrionalis Russiae, one of the first maps of the Russian north coast, made by Russian cartographers and copied by Isaac Massa, and published by Hessel Gerrits in the same booklet. Again the sizes are different, 17,5x46 cm versus 14x33 cm but the details identical.
  • $13,452
  • $13,452
Margarita Philosophica Nova & Appendix

Margarita Philosophica Nova & Appendix

Reisch, G. Smith, Rara arithmetica p 82 and Maggs, Science Catalogue, 1929, both the 1504 Strasbourg edition) In quarto. In contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards.Titel in manuscript on spine.Text rubricated in red all through.2 engraved title pages.7 full page engraved chapter title pages (trivium and quadrivium).1 folding, woodcut map of the world, watermark bulls head.1 folding table (music)Abundant woodcut text engravings.Most initials and all woodcuts in straight, contemporary colour.The hundreds of woodcuts that illustrate the text are all in contemporary color. We have found only one other copy of this book in original colour. Our book is an extremely rare example of an early overview of all sciences at the turn of the XVI century, the age of Discovery.The Margarita Philosophica is an overview of the liberal arts (science) at the break of the Renaissance, here about 1490. It was the first modern encyclopaedia to appear in print (Smith). The original text was finished in 1496. It stands in line with earlier encyclopaedias like the Ethymologia by Isodorus Hispalensis (VII century, includes an OT worldmap, first printed in 1472) Jacobus Magnus’ Sophologium (early XV century, first printed around 1470, and Bartolomeus Anglicus’ De proprietatibus rerum (1470).Gregor Reisch (1467-1525) was professor at Heidelberg University, where he also taught Waldseemüller. He is part of a circle of scientists/publishers, that include Walter Ludd; Ringmann, professor of cosmology in Basel, Johann Grüninger in Strassburg (printer) , Schott and Amerbach. Between them information flowed freely. Partly under the meacenate of Rene II, Duke of Lorraine, the Cosmographia Introductio was published (1507); wall map of the world naming America (1507); gores of a globe showing & naming America (1507) and later the Carta Marina (1516).Most fields of sciences are preceded by a full page, metaphorical woodcut, showing and representing the field of science to be discussed. In this 1512 edition after the 12 chapters comes a detailed index and an important Appendix on Greek and Hebraic languages, on the Astrolabe and geographical composition; perspective and other issues.The folding map is almost always wanting (Maggs, 1929). It is so rare Harrisse had never seen it. It is a Ptolemaic worldmap where the Southland encloses the Indian Ocean. Here are written the words: “ hic non terra sed mare est in quo mirae magnitudes insulae sed Ptlomeo fuerunt incognitae” (this is not land but sea wherein a multitude of islands that were unkown to Ptolemy”)The book is also important as an early text on music (Leclerc), on mathematics (Smith).Finally in medicine the book is considered a “graphic incunable” with most famously the oldest, printed depiction of the human eye (G 3) (Flamm, 2013) and the open skull showing centres of brain activity (H2) “one of the earliest representations of this kind” (Maggs, 1929)
  • $47,081
  • $47,081
Verhael van de eerste Schipvaert. by t Noorden om

Verhael van de eerste Schipvaert. by t Noorden om

De Veer, Gerrit Joost HartgensAmsterdam, Adriaan Roest, 1650Tiele, Memoire nr 102 65 pp (last blank)Pp 1&2: Title page with woodcut plate6 original text engravings on copper plateSmall in quartoXIX century cut and rebound in half brown moroccoTitle in gilt on the spineHole in title page in old restoration, probably when rebound. Cut short just affecting a few of the headings.Pp 3-46: The story of the three voyages by the Dutch to find the north-east passage to Cathay (China) in 1594; 1505 and 1596 under Willem Barentszoon and Jacob van Heemskerk. This well-known text, published in 1598 is followed by a summary of Pp 46&47:the fourth voyage North for the Dutch, the third by Henry Hudson in 1609. This includes the exploration of North America’s East coast about 40 degrees North motivated by letters and maps sent to him by Captain Smith and his exploration of what later became the Hudson river. Pp 48-52: Isaac Massa’s description of Siberia, Samojeda en TingoessaPp 52-60: Isaac Massa’s description of the roads and rivers going east from MoscoviaPp 60-64: Johannes Pontanus: Plea to discover a NE or NW passage based on the history up till 1586Second Hartgens imprint (first 1648). All Hartgens editions of the early Dutch voyages to the East are rare.Bibliography:Muller, Samuel. Detectio Freti Hudsoni, Amsterdam, Muller 1878S.P l‘ Honore Naber. Hessel Gerritsz Beschrijvinghe the Hague, Nijhoff 1924S.P l’ Honore Naber. Reizen van Willem Barents Noorden, the Hague, Nijhoff 1917. 2 VolsAsher, G.M. Henry Hudson de Navigator, London, Haykluyt Soc. , 1860Beke, Charles T, True description of the three voyages by the NE towards Cathay and China London, Hakluyt 1853
  • $5,381
  • $5,381
Terrae Sanctae Scondiae doctissima descriptio

Terrae Sanctae Scondiae doctissima descriptio

Ziegler, Jacob Argentorati (Strasbourg) , Rihelium (Rihel). 1536Terra Sancta: Laor mapas 866-700 A; Scondia (Scandia, Scandinavia) : Ginsberg, 2006, map 8; Ehrensvard, 2006, pp 49-51; Burden 1996, Map 9Small in folio (29x19 cm)Contemporary embossed pigskin over wooden boardsTwo original clasps. Raised bands, Title in contemporary manuscript on the spineContemporary paper library label : Terre Sancte descriotio quam palestinam nominant auctore Jacobo Zieglero C 83148 leaves; 14 non numbered leaves; 8 double page woodcut maps;2 nn leaves.Waterstain upper quarter of the book throughout, mostly light. Title page upper blank 2 cm added. Overall a fine atlas in its original, nearly 500 year old constitution and binding.Middle East; Terra Sancta; Arabia lvs 1-74First printed atlas of Terra Sancta, Palestine (1532). Fine maps of the Middle East (A II) ; Palestina (A IIII); Samarium; Judea; Palestina (BIIII); Aegypta ; Crossing of the Red Sea and (C II) mapsSchondia. Plinius: Scandia, Scandinavia lvs 85-103The oldest surviving map of Scandinavia seems to be the manuscript copy of 1427 of the map by the Danish mathematician Claudius Clavus. The earliest printed maps derive from the manuscript map of the region as designed Donnus Germanus around 1470. A new and better design was drawn and printed in 1532 by Jacob Ziegler. Ziegler, a German scientist, worked in Rome between 1521 and 1525, living in that famous St Brigitta hospital, a base for Nordic pilgrims (Ehrensvard) where he received new information from Scandinavian priests. He also worked there with Johannes Magnus and Peder Manson. His map embraces the Northern Atlantic, Greenland and New Foundland, and shows Scandinavia in a very appropriate way.Bibliography: Ginsburg, W: Printed maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic. Septentrionalium Press. 2006Laor, E. Maps of the Holy Land, New York, Liss 1986Sigurdson, Haraldur, Landmarks in Icelandic Cartography in Arctic, Vol 37, December 1985
  • $17,936
  • $17,936
Relaciones universales del mundo

Relaciones universales del mundo

Botero Benes Primera y segunda parteValladolid, Diego Fernandez de Cordoba. 1603Palau 33704; Vindel, 1955 pp 56-59; JCB, Europ Americana: 603/17; JCB 1922: III pp 20 ; Sabin 6809; Medina: BHA 468; Mapas: Shirley 242; Burden, 129; En folio, 28,5 x 20 cm. Pleno cuero del XVIIILomo con título y adornos grabados en oroDos libros (partes con enumeración propia) en un solo tomoPrimer libro: 4 hojas; 24 folios; 207 folios; 5 mapas plegadosSegundo libro: 1 blanco; 110 foliosLibro reencuadernado en el XVIII en cuero. Lomo compartimentado con adorno en oro. Titulo impreso sobre el lomo. Danos menores e los dos partes extremos del lomo. Texto en impecable condición. Mapas impresos en papel grueso.Segunda edición de la traducción en castellano de la obra famosa de Giovanni Botero, 1544-1617. La edición en castellano es más buscado por su juego de mapas españoles, el mapamundi y los continentes de 1598. Palau menciona una primera edicion de 1600 que difiere únicamente en la fecha en la portada. Otros bibliografos no han visto esta edición. El colofón del libro dice 1599 y la portada 1603.El primer libro trata en cinco partes la geografía de los continentes y sus países. La sexta parte, a partir de la hoja 158, se dedica a las islas del mundo en la tradición de los "isolarios". El segundo libro compara las características los Reynos de Europa con los imperios del pasado como los Romanos y con los Imperios no Europeas como el Turco; el de Persia; El de los Mogoles; la China y el Japón.Los mapas son cinco, grabados nuevos hechos por Hernán de Solis y Ribadeneira en base a los mapas de Ortelius. El de las Americas esta fechada en la plancha, Valladolid 1598.El mapamundi (Shirley 242) copia el deseno geográfico del mapamundi de Ortelius de los años setenta con bastante precisión, cambiando toponimias en Castellano donde estuvieron en Latín, especialmente en España y en las Américas. El borden decorativo del mapa contiene un dibujo de los cuatro continentes.El mapa de las Américas (Burden 129) también cambia los topónimos en castellano. En el Pacifico al Oeste de Nueva Guinea el mapa muestra las Islas de Salomon, como parecen en el mapa Ortelius a partir de 1587. En Tierra Australis dice " esta Costa Austral fue descubierta por un piloto Castellano, región comúnmente llamada de Magellanes, que asta agora no está bien conocida. El borden decorativo tiene el título del mapa y los retratos de Colon y de Vespucio. Mapas españoles del siglo XVI son escasos y raros. Los unicos que preceden a este son el famoso mapa de Pedro Martir (1511) , los mapas de Pedro Medina en su arte de navigar; el pequeno de Chavez (1554) y el otro de Cieza de León (1554).Sobreviven pocos ejemplares del libro completos con sus 5 mapas. Según el Patrimonio Bibliografico Espanol por ejemplo sobreviven en España 39 ejemplares del libro. Sin embargo de los 7 que figuran en el inventario de la Biblioteca Nacional solo uno tiene los 5 mapas. Otros ejemplares por ejemplo de la biblioteca del Palacio; de la Real Academia y de la Complutense todos son faltos de sus mapas. Entre 2000 y 2020 no fueron ofrecidos ejemplares completos en el mercado mundial.Note in EnglishGiovanni Botero aspired to become a Jesuit which to his frustration never occurred. Still he spent his life as a full time intellectual in the circles of power, the first part as a counter-reformation person. Opposing himself to Machiavelli he maintains in his various books that political power can only be successful if it rests on Christian ethics and behavior. This attitude is shown in essays like On the causes of Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1598) and The reasons of State (1597). The Relaciones universales del Mundo is no longer only descriptive and far less dependent on the classics. Botero drew on the existing travel literature, accounts of merchants and missionaries and especially the reports Venetian Ambassadors were required to submit upon returning form their embassies. His Cosmography is not Eurocentered (like for e
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Oost en West Indische Voyagie and l’ Hermite

Oost en West Indische Voyagie and l’ Hermite, Jacques Voyagie om den gantschen Aerdtcloot

Spilbergen, J van Amsterdam, Joost Hartgens. 1648(Tiele Memoire nr. 71 and nr 77)In small quarto. Modern half calfTwo books in one volumeSpilbergen: pp 3-62, six woodcut plates in the textL’ Hermite: pp 3-60, ten woodcuts and seven copper plate engravings in the text.Lacking the two title pages.Spilbergen’s was the fifth circumnavigation ever after Magellan; Drake; Cavendish and van Noort. The voyage took place between 1614 and 1618. Spilbergen was an accomplished admiral who had sailed for the VOC to the Indies (Ceylon) before. He was sent again by the VOC to discover new territories, chart the Magellan’s Straits and damage Spanish interests in South America and the Philippines where possible. He landed in Brazil, mapped Magellan’s Strait, fought Spanish settlements in Chile, Peru and Mexico and sailed to the Philippines. Once in Batavia he picked up le Maire and the rest of his crew who had been arrested in Batavia for breaching VOC laws by sailing to the Indies without VOC consent. Le Maire denied this as he did not sail through Magellan’s Straits (as specified in the VOC laws) but around Cape Horn!! The Schouten version of his voyage with le Maire is no part of our volumes. Instead the voyage around the world by l’ Hermite is added, apparently to unite Dutch circumnavigations.Jacques l’’ Hermite was sent out to attack the Spanish possessions and frustrate the Spanish dominance in the Pacific, considered by Spain a Spanish lake. Spain and the Netherlands had just finished a 12 years truce (1609-1621) in a war of independence that took 80 years (1568-1648). L’Hermite sailed in May 1623 and returned in January 1626.In 1625 two letters were published in Holland, translated from Spanish, that recount the information of the first parts of l’ Hermite’s voyage given by a Dutch sailor, taken prisoner of war in Lima. The first full publication was by Gerritszoon and Wachter in Amsterdam in 1626. That book had 9 plates. A second edition of that book forms part one of another publication by Wachter in 1643. In 1646 a third edition is included in the Commelin series of Dutch voyages. In this 1646 edition a description of Peru is added plus a letter by de Quiros. Ours, the fourth edition is complete in itself, missing the 1646 description of Peru (pp 61-70) and Keyes description of Guyana.So the book we offer here contains the full text and all the plates of the fifth circumnavigation of the world (Spilbergen) and the sixth circumnavigation of the world (l’ Hermite) missing only the two title pages.
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LIFE

LIFE, LETTERS AND TRAVELS OF PIERRE-JEAN DE SMET, S. J. 1801-1873.

CHITTENDEN, HIRAM M. AND ALFRED T. RICHARDSON First Editions. Four Volumes. Green Cloth. Vol. I: xv.,402pp.---Vol.II: p.403-794.---Vol.III: p.795-1211.---Vol.IV: p.1212-1624. Frontispiece in each volume, and 12 additional Plates. Large Folding Map in pocket at rear of Vol. IV. "Missionary Labors and Adventures among the Wild Tribes of the North American Indians, Embracing Minute Description of Their Manners, Customs, Games, Modes of Warfare and Torture, Legends, Traditions, etc., All from Personal Observations Made during Many Thousand Miles of Travel, with Sketches of the Country from St. Louis to Puget Sound and the Altrabasca. Edited from the original unpublished manuscript Journals and Letter Books and from his Printed Works with Historical, Geographical, Ethnological and other Notes; Also a Life of Father De Smet." De Smet was born in Belgium in 1801, came to the United States in 1821, becoming a Jesuit Missionary. He went west in 1840 with a fur trade expedition to the rendezvous at Green River, after which he went further west, often traveling with trappers and fur traders. This set is a major scholarly work, publishing his journals for the first time, and numerous letters; some published before, the majority published here for the first time. Tweney-The Washington 89-8:"Father De Smet, gave more than thirty years' service to the American Indian in his post as Superior of the Indian Missions in the Pacific Northwest. He traveled assiduously, wrote voluminously, and treated the Indians with sympathy and understanding. His writings, mostly in the form of letters, were published in both the United States and Europe. On numerous occasions he acted as chief negotiator between the Indians and the government, and he was influential in the formation of what eventually became the national Indian policy. These four volumes are the most complete collection of his letters available, and the accompanying life of Father De Smet make them both authoritative and indispensable." A beautiful set. Some very light occasional wear to edges and corners, and a few minor scuffs and spots. Some discreet, professional reinforcement to inside hinges of Vol.IV. Map in fine condition. In all, a bright, tight near fine set of this very scarce and important work.
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