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Brian Adam Douglas b. 1972 How To Disappear Completely cut paper and varnish on panel 52 by 72 in. 132.1 by 182.9 cm. Executed in 2012.

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how to disappear completely

after douglas adams (british, 1853-1920), the drive; a difficult bunker, two monochrome...

douglas adams, 1890, a highland landscape scene, with cattle in the foreground in...

The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing

I. Allcock, Harold John (1897-1947) and Jones, John Reginald. The Nomogram. The theory and practical construction of computation charts. London: Isaac Pitman, 1932, original cloth gilt, [T&W A61]ii. Baum, Frank George (1870-1932). An alternating current calculating device. For the use of electrical engineers. Stanford, CA: Author, 1902, with calculating device,  original wrappers, lacking upper wrapper, lower wrapper detached, [T&W B114]iii. Brodetsky, Selig (1888-1954). A first course in nomography. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1925, original cloth, (Edinburgh University Library), [T&W B260]iv. Douglass, Raymond Donald (born 1894) and Adams, Douglas Payne (born 1909). Elements of nomography. New York: McGraw Hill, 1947, original cloth, dust-jacket, jacket slightly chipped, [T&W D64]v. Lalanne, Léon Louis Chrétien (1811-1892). Mémoire sur les tables graphiques et sur la géométrie anamorphique appliquées a diverses questions qui se rattachent a l’art de l’ingénieur. Paris: Carilian-Goeury et V. Dalmont, 1846, modern boards, original wrappers bound in, some slight spotting, [T&W L17]vi. Lambert, René (1900-1964). Structure générale des nomogrammes et des systémes nomographiques. Paris: Hermann et Cie., 1937, original paper covers, [T&W L21]vii. Lefroid, Louis. Abaque d'extraction de racines et d'elevation aux puissances d'un nombre quelconque. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1953, one folding oblong sheet, inserted into wrappers, [T&W L56]viii. Lipka, Joseph (1883-1924). Graphical and mechanical computation. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1918, original cloth, [T&W L117]ix. Luckey, [Christian] Paul (1884-1949). Einführung in die Nomographie. Erster teil: Die funktionsleiter. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1918, original wrappers, browned, covers detached, [T&W L140]x. Meyer zur Capellen, Walther (1902-1985). Leitfaden der Nomographie. Berlin, Göttingen & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1953, original cloth, [T&W M97]xi. Ocagne, Philibert Maurice d’ (1862-1938). "Sur la methode nomographique la plus generale resultant de la position relative de deux plans superposes" [from:] Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Académie des Sciences, 31 January, 1898. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1898, wrappers, author's signature stamp and "Hommage de l'Auteur", (Weinreb Collection, Bloomsbury, 28 October 1999, lot 84, Erwin Tomash), [T&W O9]xii. Ocagne, Philibert Maurice d’. "Sur la resolution nomographique du triangle de position pour une latitude donnée" [in:] Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Académie des Sciences, Vol. 135, No. 18, November 3, 1902 pp.728-730. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1902, original wrappers, wrappers detached, [T&W O11]xiii. Ocagne, Philibert Maurice d’. Calcul graphique et nomographie. Paris: Octave Doin, [1908], original orange cloth printed in black and red, [T&W O12]xiv. Ocagne, Philibert Maurice d’. Calcul graphique et nomographie. Paris: Octave Doin, [1914], original orange cloth printed in black and red, [T&W O13]xv. Ocagne, Philibert Maurice d’ . Calcul graphique et nomographie. Paris: Octave Doin, [1914], original orange paper covers printed in black and red, [T&W O14]xvi. Ocagne, Philibert Maurice d’.  Deux conferences sur la nomographie donnée les 28 et 29 juillet 1914 à l'Université d'Edimbourg... [from:] L'Enseignement Mathématique No. du 15 Novembre 1916 et No. de Janvier-Mars 1917. Paris: L'Enseignement Mathématique, 1916-17, original printed wrappers, [T&W O18]xvii. Ocagne, Philibert Maurice d’.  Traité de nomographie. Théorie des abaques. Applications pratiques. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1899, contemporary quarter morocco, (Franklin Institute Library, Philadelphia; bought from the Antiquarian Scientist, 1989), [T&W O22; Origins of Cyberspace 245]xviii. Ocagne, Philibert Maurice d’. Traité de nomographie. Étude générale de la représentation graphique cotée des équations a un nombre quelconque de variables applications pratiques. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921, wrappers, preserved in quarter cloth folding box, disbound, [T&W O24]xix. Swett, George Wright. Construction of alignment charts. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1928, original cloth8vo or 4to (19) 

a collection of 19 works, comprising:

Impressionist & Modern Art

Property from a New York Collection Joseph Douglas Purcell 1927 - 2015 Wharf Scene, Adams and Knickle's on the Lunenburg Waterfront Signed Joseph Purcell (lower left) Watercolor and pencil on paper Sight: 21½ by 29½ in. (54.5 by 75 cm) Framed: 34¼ by 42 in. (87.5 by 107 cm)

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wharf scene, adams and knickle's on the lunenburg waterfront

Old Master & British Works on Paper

Property of a lady John Martin Haydon Bridge, Northumberland 1789 - 1854 Douglas, Isle of Man A Study for 'Adam's first sight of Eve' Wash over pencil, heightened with scratching out and touches of white; signed and dated lower right: J Martin 1810 125 by 184 mm

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a study for 'adam's first sight of eve'

Fine Books & Manuscripts

Folio (12 3/4 x 9 in.; 324 x 299 mm). Aquatint title-page printed in red and black after G. Reid by Annan and Swan, aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan, 16 engraved plates on japan paper after and by Stephen Parris, Mrs. A. L. Merritt, C. A. Platt, H. Sandham, and others, 63 engraved head- and tailpieces, historiated initials, and other ornaments after and by Merritt, Platt, J. Adam and others, double-page lithographed map on japan paper after and by J. Bartholomew; very occasional stray spot. Publisher's coarse green cloth, front cover with gilt vignette of a hawk snatching a salmon from the water, green leaf-patterned endpapers; rubbed, spine slightly faded. Half-morocco slipcase.

the ristigouche and its salmon fishing. with a chapter on angling literature. edinburgh: david douglas, 1888

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman | Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana 

(American History: 19th & 20th Centuries)

(American History: 19th & 20th Centuries) A group of 13 works and 1 ALS related to 19th & 20th century American History Lot includes: Henry Adams. History of the United States of America During the First Administration of Thomas Jefferson... New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889-1891. Ten vols., 8vo; ownership signature. Publisher's green cloth; lightly rubbed. First edition — Judah P. Benjamin [Confederate Imprint]. Correspondence of the Department of State in relation to the British Consuls Resident in the Confederate States. Richmond: Printed at the Sentinel Office, 1863. Disbound, ink stamps of the War Department, Rebel Archives, lightly toned. In a cloth clamshell case — Henry Clay. Collection of four documents: 1) Speech of the Hon. Henry Clay on the Subject of Removal of Deposites... Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1834. 8vo, spotted. Morocco-backed modern marbled boards. 2) An Address of Henry Clay, to the Public…of the Charges Against Him, Made by Gen. Andrew Jackson…Washington: Printed by Peter Force, 1827. 8vo. dampstaining. Disbound. First Edition. 3) Speech of the Hon. Henry Clay on the Subject of Removal of Deposites... Washington: Duff Green, 1834. 8vo. spotting, modern printed wrappers. 4) Speech of Henry Clay,In Defence of the American System Against the British Colonial System… Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1832. 8vo.; spotted. Green cloth, spine gilt — Henry Clay. Autograph letter, signed, from Henry Clay to his associate James Brown in 1834. Lexington, KY: September 23, 1834. regarding the sale of a plantation and several other items of personal news. With loose engraved portrait. 1pp. on a bifolium with integral address leaf; separations along folds, toned, a few losses. In a custom slipcase — Edward Livingston. Address to the People of the United States on the Measures Pursued by the Executive with Respect to the Batture at New Orleans... New Orleans: Bradford and Anderson, 1808. [Bound with] A Review of the Cause of the New Orleans Batture... Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1809. Previously owned and inscribed by Virginia statesman and conservative Democratic-Republican John Randolph. 8vo. Dampstaining. Red morocco and antique marbled boards, red label to spine: "Batture" — Douglas MacArthur.Reminiscences. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. 8vo. Publisher's beige cloth, original publisher's card box. Special limited edition, 1486 of 1750 copies signed by MacArthur — Douglas MacArthur.Reminiscences. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. 8vo. Publisher's beige cloth, original publisher's card box. Special limited edition, 629 of 1750 copies signed by MacArthur — Mordecai Noah. Printed document, with manuscript additions, signed by Mordecai Noah as Sheriff of New York. New York: Nov. 5, 1821. 2 pp. (330 x 190 mm); minor separation at folds. In a custom clamshell. — (Tennessee). Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates Elected by the People of Tennessee to Amend, Revise, or Form and Make a New Constitution for the State. Nashville: Jones, Purvis & Co., 1870. 8vo. Library stamp to title, lightly toned. Morocco backed cloth boards, spine gilt — Omar N. Bradley. A Soldier's Story. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1951. 8vo. Tan cloth, publisher's cardboard box. Limited edition, 574 of 750 signed copies — W. J. Hardee. U.S. Infantry Tactics for the Instruction, Exercise and Maneuvers of the United States Infantry…Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1861. 16mo. Folding plates; frontis. repaired, early ownership signature, spotting. Contemporary grey pebble cloth, gilt. In a custom clamshell box. First edition. Together 13 works in 22 volumes, and 1 ALS. Sold as a group lot, not subject to return.

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(american history: 19th & 20th centuries) | a group of 13 works and 1 als related to 19th & 20th century american history

Lincoln, Abraham Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln"), to Joseph Jackson Grimshaw, suggesting a resolution to a pending legal case One page (202 x 127 mm) on a leaf of blue-ruled paper, Springfield, 27 March 1858; very short separations at head and foot of central vertical crease. Matted, framed, and glazed. Less than three months before his nomination as a candidate for the United States Senate by the Illinois Republican Convention, Lincoln seeks a settlement in a pending legal matter. "Herewith I send you a sketch [not present] for an agreement in the case we spoke of—You see I ask you to admit more points for me, than I admit for you; but if you have any more merely labor-saving points (as mine are) admitted, add them, sign the paper & send it to me and I also sign it. "I forget the names of the parties to the suits; but you and I will have dispute about that. "The copy of the Will I have duly authenticated from Barton, but being a copy, it has not note of its record in Adams County, though my man says it is recorded there. The death of an Executor can also be proved. … Answer soon." Jackson Grimshaw was a prominent Illinois attorney, in practice first with his brother, William, in Pittsfield, but moving to Quincy in 1857. He was closely associated with Lincoln, sometimes acting as co-counsel and sometimes, as here, standing in an adversarial position. Grimshaw, like Lincoln, deserted the Whigs for the nascent Republican party, and he strongly supported Lincoln's senatorial and presidential campaigns. Lincoln inscribed one of his author's copies of Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois to Grimshaw. This letter is not included The Collected Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Basler, but its existence was assumed from a reference in Grimshaw's reply, 3 April 1858. PROVENANCE The Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundation (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 June 1979, lot 752)

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lincoln, abraham | lincoln as lawyer

Books and Manuscripts: A Summer Miscellany

From the Library of Alan Milne [LAWRENCE, T.E.] COLLECTION OF UPWARDS OF 200 VOLUMES OF WORKS BY, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY OR RELATING TO LAWRENCE, INCLUDING: Lawrence, T.E. A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force Under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., July 1917 to October 1918. Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1919, second edition, original grey paper covered boards, grey linen spine, Camberley Library bookplate (withdrawn), offsetting, covers slightly scuffed, [O'Brien A012]; Carchemish... British Museum, 1969, dust-jacket, photolithographic reprint of 1921 edition, [A002 note]; Guérilla dans le desert 1916-1918. Brussels, 1992, first edition in French, [A268]; Oriental Assembly. Williams and Norgate, 1939, in jacket, [A221]; Minorities. Bertram Rota and Cape, 1971, preface by C. Day Lewis, NO.46 OF 125 SIGNED BY DAY LEWIS, [A257]; with further editions of same work; Handbook of the Turkish Army. Imperial War Museum, 1996, reprint of 1915 Cairo edition [O'Brien A009c]; The Arab Bulletin, 1916-1918. Archive Editions, 1986, [O'Brien A010a]; T.E. Lawrence in War & Peace. An Anthology of military writings. Greenhill Books, 2005, edited by Malcolm Brown, publisher's galley proofs, signed by Brown, [A274]; The Kaer of Ibu Wardani. Withnail Books, 2018, LIMITED EDITION, NO.54 OF 70 COPIES--Doughty, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Medici Society, Cape, 1926, one volume, fourth English edition,half-leather, [A015]; with other editions of same work including first French edition of 1949--Garnett, Richard. The Twilight of the Gods. John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1927, dust-jacket; with first American illustrated edition--Felix, Bertram. Arabia Felix. Jonathan Cape, 1932, [A155]; with another edition--Guillaume, R. & A. An Introduction and Notes Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Tabard Press, 1998, first English edition, translated by Hilary Mandleberg, SPECIAL EDITION, NO. XI/XXV COPIES, quarter tan goatskin, blue cloth covers, [not in O'Brien]--Lawrence, T.E. (contrib.) Brown, Oliver. Exhibition... Evelyn Adams & Mackay, 1968, dust-jacket; with another copy--Thomas, Lowell. With Lawrence in Arabia. Hutchinson, 1925; with other contemporary works by Thomas--Graves, Robert. Lawrence and the Arabs. Jonathan Cape, 1927; with other editions of same work--German-Reed, T. Bibliographical Notes on T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Revolt in the Desert. W.&G. Foyle, 1928, NO.37/375 COPIES--[Bartlett, Stephen] "Gurney Slade". Led by Lawrence. Warne, [1934]--Hart, B.H. Liddell. 'T.E. Lawrence' In Arabia and after. Jonathan Cape, 1934; with several other editions of the same work (some foreign editions)--Kiernan, R.H. Lawrence of Arabia. George G. Harrap, 1935; with another copy, variant binding--[Gawsworth, John.] "G." Annotations on Some Minor Writings of 'T.E. Lawrence'. Eric Partridge Ltd at the Scholartis Press, 1935--Robinson, Edward. Lawrence. The Story of his Life. Oxford University Press, 1935; with another edition--St. Paul's Cathedral. Form of Service used at the Unveiling of the Memorial to Thomas Edward Lawrence... 1936--Lawrence of Arabia Memorial. Lawrence of Arabia Committee, 1935--Halifax, Viscount. T.E. Lawrence. An Address...delivered at St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday, 29th January 1936--Richards, Vyvian. Portrait of T.E. Lawrence. Jonathan Cape, 1936; with others by Richards--Lawrence, A.W., editor. T.E. Lawrence by his Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1937; 2 further copies, later impression and later edition--Altounyan, E.H.R. Ornament of Honour. Cambridge University Press, 1937--City of Oxford High School for Boys Proceedings at the Unveiling of the Memorial to Lawrence of Arabia 3 October 1936. Oxford: Thornton, 1937, inscription on upper cover "From Eric Kennington, Homer House, 1945"--Glen, Douglas. In the Steps of Lawrence of Arabia. Rich & Cowan, [1938]--Clouds Hill. National Trust, 1939; with later editions of same guide--Burbage, Wm. F. The Mysterious AC2. Crowther, 1940--Smith, Claire Sydney. The Golden Reign. Cassell, 1949, pocket edition; with 1978 edition--Storrs, Sir Ronald. Lawrence of Arabia, Zionism and Palestine. Penguin, 1943--Boussard, Léon. Le Secret de Colonel Lawrence. Paris: Editions Mont-Louis, 1941; with another edition--Williamson, Henry. Genius of Friendship: 'T.E. Lawrence'. Faber, 1941; with further editions of same work--Ocampo, Victoria. T.E. Buenos Aires: Editions des Lettres Françaises, 1942, limited issue, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO RALPH STEVENSON, British Minister at Montevideo, in November 1942; with further editions of same work; together with a substantial collection of further works about or relating to Lawrence, predominantly published postwar, authors including Erik Lönnroth, Edward Robinson, John Thomas, Richard Aldington, James Fairweather Milne, Flora Armitage, Terence Rattigan, Anthony Nutting, Benoist-Méchin, Alastair Maclean, Suileimam Mousa, Robert Payne, Stanley Weintraub, Phillip Knightley, Charles Grosvenor, John E. Mack, Peter Brent, Desmond Stewart, Jill M. Phillips, Paul J. Marriot (1/600 signed by the author), T.J. O'Donnell, Philip O'Brien, Donald Weeks, Michael Yardley, Hugh Walpole (1/100), V.M. Thompson, Malcolm Brown, Julia Cave, Jeremy Wilson, Lawrence James, Susan Smith Nash, Patrick Knowles, A.G. Pryce-Jones, David Stevens, Michael Asher, Leslie McLouglin, Stephen E. Tabachnick, Anthony Sattin, Adrien le Corbeau and others; together with exhibition catalogues (including T.E. Lawrence Fifty Letters 1920-1935, University of Texas, 1962, one of 2000 copies), souvenir programmes for performances of David Lean's 1962 film biography and auction catalogues, and a collection of incidental books with references to Lawrence, and a series of periodicals with articles about him; chiefly 8vo, some first editions, some in dust-jackets (upwards of 200) To view Shipping Calculator, please click here

lawrence, t.e. | collection of upwards of 200 works by, about or relating to lawrence

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Scenecae [!] Tragoediae. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, October 1517

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Scenecae [!] Tragoediae. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, October 1517 A splendid example of a binding commissioned for François I's "Italian Library," varying from the norm in having on the spine the King's cipher rather than a horizontal title. François was fluent in Italian, and his Italian library was composed predominantly of recent Venetian imprints, the majority in Italian with just a few in Latin or Greek, of which about one hundred still survive. The books were bought in Italy but bound in Paris, and this is considered to be the first collection to which the owner's arms were systematically added to the covers. For other books from François's Italian library that were later part of Bibliotheca Brookeriana, please see lots 111 and 415 in The Aldine Collection A–C (New York, 12 October 2023). 8vo (164 x 91 mm). Italic type, 30 Lines plus headline. collation: a4 b–z8 A–D8 E4: 216 foliated leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and E4v, two- to seven-line initial space with guide letters. binding: French dark brown calf (171 x 101 mm), late 1530s, by Étienne Roffet, covers panelled with gilt and blind fillets and tooled in gilt and silver, in central panel Francis I's gilt arms for his "Italian Library," gilt fleurs-de-lis at corners, silver leaf and bud at outer corners, traces of two pairs of ties, spine in eight compartments with five full and two half bands, compartments decorated with alternating silver F and gold fleur-de-lis, plain end papers, edges gilt. (Rubbing and restoration to joints and other extremities.) Plexiglas slipcase. provenance: François I (1494–1547), King of France (r. 1515–1547), armorial supralibros — unidentified owner, early nineteenth-century inscription "1907" in ink on verso front free endpaper — Richard Heber (1773–1833); his sale, R. H. Evans, London, 23 March–14 April 1835, lot 3313; purchased by — Henry G. Bohn, London (£8 18s 6d) — possibly William Beckford (1760–1844) — Alexander Douglas, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767–1852); his sale, Sotheby's London, London, 2–13 July 1883, lot 1795; purchased by — Bernard Quaritch, London (£81) — Henri Bordes (1841–1911), morocco label; Maurice Delestre & Charles Porquet, Catalogue de manuscrits sur vélin, livres rares et précieux … provenant de la bibliothèque d'un amateur, Paris, 10 June 1899, lot 29; purchased by — unidentified owner (FF 2700) — Librairie Damascène Morgand, Livres imprimés et manuscrits, Mai 1900 (Paris, 1900), item 351 (FF 4000) — André Langlois (1873–1975), morocco label. acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris, 1998. references: UCLA 155; Adams S903; Cataldi Palau 24; Edit16 37581; Grolier/Aldus 65; Renouard 80/4; USTC 855885; cf. Arthur Rau, "André Langlois (Contemporary Collectors XIII)," in The Book Collector 6 (1957):129–143 (this book cited, p. 132) – T. Kimball Brooker, "Bindings Commissioned for Francis I's 'Italian Library' with Horizontal Spine Titles dating from the late 1530s to 1540," in Bulletin du Bibliophile (1997): 33–91

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seneca, tragoediae, venice, heirs of aldo manuzio & andrea torresano, 1517, french dark brown calf, late 1530s, by étienne roffet for françois i

Books and Manuscripts from the Japan Society Library

Property from the Japan Society Library, London

Property from the Japan Society Library, London A group of books on literature and the history of Japan, including some donated by Ernest Mason Satow comprising: A. Penitent Peri (George Cullen Pearson), Flights Inside and Outside Paradise (New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons/Knickerbocker Press, 1886) Alfred Parsons, Notes in Japan (London: Osgood McIlvaine & Co., 1896) Andrew Steinmetz, Japan and her people (London: Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, 1859), donated by Parfit/Macfarlane Nobuko & Cliff/Duncan Lewis Mackenzie Baba Bunyel, Japan 1854-1864 Genki Yume Monogatari (n. p., 1870/71) C. Pfoundes, Fu-So Mimi Bukuro: A Budget of Japanese Notes (Yokohama: Japan Mail, 1875) Clarence Ludlow Brownell, The heart of Japan (London: Methuen, 1904) Douglas Sladen,The Japs at Home. [fifth edition: To which are added for the first time some bits of China] (London: Ward, Lock & Bowden Limited, 1895) Du Pin, Le Japon: moeurs, coutumes, descriptions [in French] (Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1868), donated by Ernest Mason Satow Edward J. Reed, Japan: Its History, Traditions, and Religions, vols. 1-2 (London: John Murray, 1880) F. R. Wetmore, Yokohama Guide (Yokohama: F. R. Wetmore, 1874) Félix Régamey (transl. F. Sheldon), Le Japon pratique (Paris: J. Hetzel, 1891) Frank Brinkley, A history of the Japanese people: from the earliest times to the end of the Meiji era (London and New York: Encyclopædia Britannica Co., 1914) George John Younghusband, On short leave to Japan (London: Sampson Low, Marsten & Company, 1894) Henry Norman, The Real Japan. Studies of Contemporary Japanese Manners, Morals, Administration, and Politics (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893) Henry Baker Tristam, Rambles in Japan: The Land of the Rising Sun (London: Religious Tract Society, 1895) Henry Craven St John, Notes and Sketches from the Wild Coasts of Nipon. [with Chapters on Cruising after Pirates in Chinese Waters] (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1880) Herbert Moore, A Japanese Family (n. p., 1905) Johanne Justus Rein, Japan: travels and researches (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1884) John William Robertson Scott, The Foundations of Japan (London: John Murray, 1922), presented to Arthur Diósy by Baron Suyematsu Kenchio in December 1905 Joseph L. Thomas, Journeys among the Gentle Japs in 1895 (London: Sampson Low, Marsten & Company, 1897), donated by Joseph L. Thomas Louis Emile Bertin, Les grandes guerres civiles du Japon 1156-1392 [in French] (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1894), donated by Louis Emile Bertin M. McLean, Echoes from Japan (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1889), donated by M. McLean on 2 April 1892 Major Ronald V. C.Bodley, A Japanese Omelette: A British writer’s impressions on the Japanese empire (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1933) Mortimer Menpes, Japan: a record in colour (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1901), donated by Freddie Schaeffer Pfarrer Fleischhauer, Japan [in German] (Langenfalza: Schulbuchhandlung des thür, 1857), donated by Ernest Mason Satow Paul de P. de Lapeyrère, Le Japon militaire (Paris: E. Plon, 1883), donated by Ernest Mason Satow Pierre Loti, Madame Chrysanthème [in French] (Paris: Calmann, Lévy, Éditeur, 1888), donated by Pierre Loti in 1892 Rutherford Alcock, The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of Three Years’ Residence in Japan, vols. 1-2 (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863), donated by E. Gilbertson in 1893 Samuel Mossman, New Japan: the land of the Rising Sun (London: John Murray, 1873), donated by Ernest Mason Satow Sherard Osborn, A Cruise in Japanese Waters (Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1759) Sherard Osborn, A Cruise in Japanese Waters (Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1759) Susan Ballard, More about Japan (London: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1915) Tadamasa (Viscount) Hayashi, For His People: The true story of Sogoro’s sacrifice (London: Harper & Brothers, 1903), donated by Hayashi Tadamasa Walter Dickson, Japan: a sketch of the history, government and officers of the empire (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1869), donated by Ernest Mason Satow Walter Weston, Mountaineering and exploration in the Japanese Alps (London: John Murray, 1896) William Conn, Japanese life: love and legend (n. p., 1886) William George Aston, A History of Japanese literature (London: William Heinemann, 1918), donated by Duncan Lewis Mackenzie Macfarlane William George Aston, Ancient Japanese classic: Tosa diary (Yedo: Asiatic Society of Japan, 1875) [Anon.], History of the empire of Japan (Tokyo: Dai Nippon Tosho Kabushiki Kwaisha, 1893) [Anon.] (ed. Summers James), The Chinese and Japanese repository of facts and events in Science, History and Art relating to Eastern Asia, vol 1 (London/Paris: W. H. Allen/Benj. Duprat, 1863)

View 1 of Lot 24: A group of books on literature and the history of Japan, including some donated by Ernest Mason Satow

a group of books on literature and the history of japan, including some donated by ernest mason satow

Books, Manuscripts & Music

Bible, Latin Biblia Latina, a bifolium printed on vellum from the Gutenberg or 42-line Bible. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, c.1454-1455] 360 x 240 mm, Royal folio, joint bifolium (separated at one point now attached again) (I:25, 26 (3/5·6)) from volume I containing the text of Genesis 42:31 until 46:12, 42 lines, double column, type 140G, two 2-line initials in red, one in blue, chapter numbers and running title supplied in red, some capitals marked in red with a slanted stroke with serif; leaves browned overall, stain in upper right corner of first recto, a few small wormholes at right foot of first recto, some minor staining, creases where leaves were folded as paste downs, occasionally slight fading of text A REDISCOVERED BIFOLIUM FROM THE GUTENBERG BIBLE, THE FIRST PRINTED BIBLE IN EUROPE, FROM THE COLLECTION OF PAUL HIRSCH. This newly discovered bifolium from the Gutenberg Bible contains a substantial section of the book of Genesis (42:31 until 46:12). Not only the text but also the decoration of the lost fragment matches our fragment. The decoration of the St Louis and Dallas leaves is characterised by the purely red headlines, and slanted capital strokes with serifs, and a small dot after the chapter numerals, mirroring the decoration in our fragment. The so-called 42-line Bible, or Gutenberg Bible, was created by German printer and publisher Johannes Gutenberg (c.1400-1468) in his workshop in Mainz in 1454/55. Using Jerome’s ‘Vulgate’ translation, the text is laid out in two columns of 42 lines. With its elegant Gothic type that was designed to emulate manuscript, the Gutenberg Bible was a revolutionary masterpiece, uniting the art of fine printing with ingenious craftsmanship, immortalising the historic significance of the Bible. While around 158 to 180 copies were made on paper, only 12 more or less complete Bibles on vellum are extant, and most of these are held in public institutions (White, p.21, 2010). In light of this survival rate, every fragment is a precious piece of cultural history. The Gutenberg Bible was not only the first Bible, but the first book to be printed in Europe using movable type. While printing itself was not a new invention, Gutenberg is credited with having revolutionised the printing process through the introduction of individual ‘movable’ letters made of metal. Using individual letters that could be rearranged at a moment’s notice with minimum effort – instead of complete text blocks made from wood – radically hastened the production of printed materials and exponentially increased the amount of texts in circulation at the time. Gutenberg’s technical advancement of the printing press acted as a catalyst for the Reformation movement that led to a cultural shift of unforeseeable proportions, an event that was coined the ‘printing revolution’ by Elizabeth Eisenstein in 1983. Almost overnight, it became possible to duplicate and multiply human knowledge within a few hours, making it accessible to a wider readership. The production of this Bible signified a turning point in human history, whose legacy and impact scholars are still trying to understand today. SISTER LEAVES: 1. I:24 (3/4) = Genesis 41-42. Saint Louis, Missouri, Art Museum, 40:1922. 2. I:27 (3/7) = Genesis 46-48.Dallas, Texas, Southern Methodist University, Bridwell Library, Prothro B-51. 3. I:50 (5/10) = Leviticus 4-5. Coburg, Landesbibliothek, Inc. Ca 23:1; see E. Herold, “Die Coburger Gutenbergfunde und ihre Bedeutung für die Gutenberg-Forschung”, Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1941), 52. 4. II:298 (30/4) = Acts 21-23. Karlsruhe, Landesarchiv, 65/11987; see Hermann Ehmer, “Ein neuentdecktes Pergamentfragment der 42-zeiligen Gutenbergbibel”, Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 123 (1975), 251-252, with two illustrations. PROVENANCE: 1. Printed in Mainz by Johann Gutenberg in his workshop between 1454 and 1455. 2. A sister leaf from Coburg, which was used on a copy of the 1572 edition of Brant’s Stultifera Navis from Basel, indicates that this copy of the Gutenberg Bible must have been disassembled at some point before 1572. 3. The fragment is likely to be identified with the lost leaf belonging to the ‘Durlach Group’, designated by Eric White (White 2010, p.24). In 1909, the celebrated Munich bookseller Jacques Rosenthal acquired four leaves (two single leaves and our bifolium) encompassing Genesis 41 to 48. The bifolium was likely acquired around 1920 by Paul Hirsch. One leaf was purchased by Paul Gottschalk, who sold it to the St Louis Art Museum (f.I:24) in 1922. The remaining leaf (f.I:27) passed to Jacques Rosenthal’s son after his death in 1937, Dr. Erwin Rosenthal, who sold the leaf to H. P. Kraus in 1953 (his catalogue, The Cradle of Printing: From Mainz and Bamberg to Westminster and St Albans. One Hundred Incunabula and Manuscripts Important for the Development of Early Printing, New York, [1954]). Kraus sold the leaf in 1954 to Harold J. Maker of Irvington, New Jersey. The next known owner, Samuel D. Steinberg, presented it to Sinai Temple in Los Angeles in 1961. In 1964, John Howell Books in San Francisco sold the leaf to Charles Prothro of Wichita Falls, Texas, as a Christmas gift for his wife Elizabeth Perkins Prothro; she presented it to Bridwell Library in 1996 where it is still held today. Our fragment was sold to: 4. The renowned bibliophile Paul Hirsch (1881–1951). Born into a German-Jewish industrial family, he soon developed a great appreciation for books and was a passionate and accomplished musician. He created the largest private library in Europe, and his collection of music, encompassing over 18,000 items, is now held at the British Library. Following the rise of National Socialism in Germany Hirsch fled Germany in 1936 to settle in Cambridge; 5. by descent to the current owner. See following lot and lots 147-149. LITERATURE: ISTC ib00526000; White, Eric Marshall (2010). "The Gutenberg Bibles that Survive as Binder's Waste". In Wagner, Bettina; Reed, Marcia (eds.). Early Printed Books as Material Objects: Proceedings of the Conference Organized by the Ifla Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Munich, 19–21 August 2009. De Gruyter, pp. 21–35; Goff, Frederick R. Incunabula in American libraries: a third census. Millwood (N.Y.), 1973. (Reproduced from the annotated copy of the original edition (New York, 1964) maintained by Goff). (Supplement. New York, 1972.) B526 FURTHER READING: Als die Lettern laufen lernten: Medienwandel im 15. Jahrhundert. Inkunabeln aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. ed. by Bettina Wagner. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2009; Hooks, Adam G. “Breaking Gutenberg Apart.” http://www.adamghooks.net/2013/04/breaking-gutenberg-apart.html; Kapr, Albert. Johann Gutenberg: the Man and His Invention. Douglas Martin, trans. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1996; Meuthen, Erich. “Ein neues frühes Quellenzeugnis (zu Oktober 1454?) für den ältesten Bibeldruck”, Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 57 (1982): 110; Needham, Paul (1999). "The Changing Shape of the Vulgate Bible in Fifteenth-Century Printing Shops". In Saenger, Paul; Van Kampen, Kimberly (eds.). The Bible as Book: the First Printed Editions. British Library. pp. 53–70; Needham, Paul (2010). "Copy Specifics in the Printing Shop". In Wagner, Bettina; Reed, Marcia (eds.). Early Printed Books as Material Objects: Proceedings of the Conference Organized by the Ifla Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Munich, 19–21 August 2009. De Gruyter Sur. pp. 9–20. Newton, A. Edward. A Noble Fragment: Being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455; with a Bibliographical Essay. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921; White, Eric Marshall. Editio Princeps: a History of the Gutenberg Bible. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2017

View 1 of Lot 5: Bible, Latin | A bifolium from the Gutenberg Bible

bible, latin | a bifolium from the gutenberg bible

English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations

From the Library of the Earls of Haddington

From the Library of the Earls of Haddington Pamphlets and Tracts by or attributed to Defoe, Burke, Boswell, Paine and others. Collection of seven volumes with eighteenth-century tracts on the American War of Independence, the Colonies, Scotland, the East India Company, the Anglo-French War, Parliament and other subjects, with several Edinburgh imprints: [Volume I:] [Defoe, Daniel, sometimes attributed to] The best preservative against the plague. With a short account of the state of this nation, from the conclusion of the grand rebellion of Oliver Cromwel to the Revolution. For J. Leminge, 1721--[Hoadly, Benjamin.] An Enquiry into the Reasons of the Conduct of Great Britain, with relation to the present state of Affairs in Europe. James Roberts, 1727; the second edition,, 1730--The rise and fall of the late projected excise.. For J. Peele, 1733, [Goldsmiths-Kress 7157]--The sly subscription: on the Norfolk monarch... For T. Tibbitt, 1733--Pulteney, William, Earl of Bath. The politicks on both sides, with regard to foreign affairs...H. Haines, 1734, [Goldsmiths-Kress 7203; Sabin, 66642] [Volume II:] Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negotiation .. For A. Millar, 1760--MacPherson, James. The Rights of Great Britain Asserted against the claims of America...the third edition, with additions. For T. Cadell, 1776, with folding table--[Lind, John.] An Answer to the Declaration of the American Congress...the fourth edition. T. Cadell, J. Walter, and T. Sewell, 1776, [Adams 76-87e]--M.,T. A letter to His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, of national defence, to which is now added, a postscript, relative to the regiments of fencible men raising in Scotland. Edinburgh, J. Dickson, 1778, also including remarks on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, [ESTC T179898, TWO COPIES ONLY]--Burke, William. Remarks on the letter addressed to two great men. In a letter to the author of that piece. Printed in the year 1760, pirated reprint (according to Todd, cited by ESTC) [Volume III:] [Paine, Thomas.] Common Sense; addressed to the Inhabitants of America... Philadelphia., printed, (London:) reprinted for J. Almon, 1776, [ESTC T141595; Adams 76-107, 76-108]--[Chalmers, James.] Plain Truth: addressed to the inhabitants of America...second edition. Philadelphia, printed (London:) reprinted for J. Almon, 1776--An oration delivered at the State-House, in Philadelphia, to a very numerous audience; on Thursday the 1st of August, 1776; by Samuel Adams. London: re-printed for J. Johnson, 1776, [not in fact by Adams, and with false Philadelphia imprint], [Adams, 76-106a]--Historical Anecdotes...from America...For J. Bew, 1779, [Adams, 79-55]--[Tickell, Richard.] Anticipation...the second edition. For T. Becket, 1778, [Adams, 79-55] [Volume IV:] Price, Richard. Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty...the third edition. For T. Cadell, 1776--[Carlyle, Alexander.] The Question relating to A Scots Militia considered...M. Cooper, 1760--[MacPherson, James.] A Short History of the Opposition during the last session of Parliament. The Third Edition. For T. Cadell, 1779; Burgoyne, John. A letter from Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to his constituents, upon his late resignation; with the correspondences between the Secretaries of War and him, relative to his return to America. For J. Almon, 1779, lacking title page, [Adams, 79-12a/b/c or f]--A letter to Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne on his letter to his consitutuents. T. Becket, 1779 [Sabin 9263]--Burke, Edmund. Speech...on presenting to the House of Commons (on the 11th of February, 1780,) a plan for the better security of the independence of Parliament. For J. Dodsley, 1780--[Boswell, James, sometimes attributed to] A letter to Robert Macqueen Lord Braxfield, on his promotion to be one of the judges of the High Court of Justiciary. Edinburgh, 1780 [Volume V:] [Rokeby, Matthew Robinson-Morris, Baron] A Further Examination of our present American Measures... Bath: R. Cruttwell for (London:) R. Baldwin and E. and C. Dilly, 1776, [Sabin, 72154]--[Crosbie, Andrew.] Thoughts of a Layman concerning Patronage... Edinburgh: Sands, Murray and Cochran, 1779--Hawkins, Sir John.] Probationary Odes for the Laureateship... James Ridgway, 1785 [Volume VI:] De Lolme, Jean Louis. Observations upon the National Embarrassment...For J. Debrett, 1779, [Goldsmiths-Kress 14047]--Dutens, M.L. Histoire de se qui s'est passé pour L'etablissement d'une Régence en Angleterre en 1798 et 1789. J. Walter, 1791, third edition--Serious Enquiries into the Motives of Our Present Armament against Russia. For J. Debrett, 1791, [Goldsmiths-Kress 14705]--Considerations on the approach of war... For J. Debrett, 1791--A Short Seasonable Hint, addressed to the Landowers and Merchants of Great Britain, on the Alarm of a War with Russia. For J. Debrett, 1791--Boswell, James. A Letter to the People of Scotland, on the Present State of the Nation. Edinburgh, 1783, [Pottle 54; Rothschild 454], slightly spotted RARE; and one other work in this volume; these five uniformly bond in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red morocco labels on spines [one further volume, labelled "Tracts 1792 & 3" on spine:] Anderson, George. A General View of the Variations which have been made in the Affairs of the East-India Company... 1792, tables at the end--Six essays on natural rights, liberty and slavery, consent of the people, equality, religious establishments, the French Revolution, which were greatly approved, and have been in much request since their original appearance in the Public Advertiser. For H.S. Woodfall, 1792, [ESTC N62745, FOUR COPIES ONLY]--[Callender, James Thomson] The political progress of Britain; or, an impartial account of the principal abuses in the government of this country, from the revolution in 1688. Edinburgh, 1792--Carlyle, Alexander. A Sermon on the Death of Sir David Dalrymple...Edinburgh, 1792-- Mallet du Pan, M. Considérations sur la nature de la révolution de France. Brussels and (London:) Owen and Boffe, 1793; this last volume in quarter calf, marbled boards, some slight spotting, spine worn and partially cracked; 8vo (7) A SIGNIFICANT COLLECTION OF TRACTS, SOME SCARCE. The Boswell pamphlet in volume 6, representing his first foray into politics, is rare at auction, with only one copy of the Edinburgh imprint recorded at auction in the last fifty years. Please see shipping calculator link: click here

pamphlets | collection of tracts by or attributed to defoe, burke, boswell, paine and others, 7 volumes, 18th century

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

Gratius Faliscus. Hoc volumine continentur poetae tres egregij nunc primum in lucem editi, Gratij qui Augusto principe floruit, de uenatione lib.I. P. Ouidij Nasonis Halieuticon liber acephalus. M. Aurelij Olympij Nemesiani cynegeticon lib.I. Eiusdem carmen bucolicum. T. Calphurnij Siculi bucolica. Adriani cardinalis uenatio. (Venice: Paolo Manuzio & Heirs of Andrea Torresano, February 1534)

Gratius Faliscus. Hoc volumine continentur poetae tres egregij nunc primum in lucem editi, Gratij qui Augusto principe floruit, de uenatione lib.I. P. Ouidij Nasonis Halieuticon liber acephalus. M. Aurelij Olympij Nemesiani cynegeticon lib.I. Eiusdem carmen bucolicum. T. Calphurnij Siculi bucolica. Adriani cardinalis uenatio. (Venice: Paolo Manuzio & Heirs of Andrea Torresano, February 1534) A second copy, printed on paper, of this editio princeps of several bucolic poems of ancient Rome, unified by the theme of hunting and fishing. For further Charles Lewis bindings, see lots 784, 836, 891, 968, 977 and 996. 8vo (150 x 95 mm). Italic types, with roman capitals, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-F8 G4: 52 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page G4v, numerous initial spaces, ranging from 6- to 2-lines, with guide-letters. (Small repair to A5 affecting a few letters.) binding: English crushed brown morocco (164 x 102 mm) by Charles Lewis (1786–1836, shop continued by widow until 1854), with his green morocco ticket, border of blind fillets with mitered corners, frame of gilt fillet flanked by blind fillets, title and imprint gilt-lettered on front cover and on the five-compartmented spine, vellum endleaves, gilt edges. (Extremities rather rubbed, tiny chip at head of spine.) provenance: probably William Beckford (1760-1844) — probably Alexander Douglas, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852) — probably Sotheby’s London, Catalogue of the third portion of the Beckford Library, removed from Hamilton Palace, 2-13 July 1883, lot 855 ("very fine copy in olive morocco, vellum fly-leaves, gilt edges, by C. Lewis"); probably purchased by — Nattali & Bond, London (£1 5s) — Charles Butler (1821-1910): his sale, Sotheby’s London, 25 February-5 March 1914, lot 4710 ("brown morocco extra, lettered on front cover, vellum endleaves, g. e., small hole in one leaf mended," but no attribution to Charles Lewis); purchased by — Maggs Bros., London (£1 10s) — perhaps The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia. acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming, New York, 1974. references: UCLA 267; Adams P1704; Edit16 21645; Grolier/Aldus 81; Renouard 113/10; USTC 834002

View 1 of Lot 756: Gratius Faliscus, poetae, Venice, Paolo Manuzio & Heirs of Andrea Torresano, 1534, English brown morocco by Charles Lewis

gratius faliscus, poetae, venice, paolo manuzio & heirs of andrea torresano, 1534, english brown morocco by charles lewis

Thucydides. Thoukydidis. Thucydides [Greek]. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, May 1502

Thucydides. Thoukydidis. Thucydides [Greek]. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, May 1502 Editio princeps of the first and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition and the foundation of "scientific history," bound by Niccolò Franzese for Apollonio Filareto; later in the libraries of Cortlandt Field Bishop and Otto Schäfer. Three groups of Filareto's bindings can be distinguished. This binding belongs to a group of eight done by Franzese and is the only one in folio format. Born in Reims under the French name of Nicolas Fery but living in Rome from about 1526 on, he was one of the most successful Roman binders of the period. The evolution of his style has been divided into three different phases: the present work belongs to the second group where the pattern of the design is still influenced by the French style of binding. Apollonio Filareto exemplifies the Italian class of Secretaries, from Machiavelli to Gabriel Naudé, who acted as shadow advisors to Renaissance princes. Little is known about Filareto's life except that he belonged to the inner circle of the Farnese, whom he undoubtedly served "both zealously and efficiently" (G. D. Hobson, Maioli, p. 112). His fidelity to the Farnese is symbolized on his bindings (here on the lower cover) by the fleur-de-lys ornaments which, repeated six times, were their arms; the clasped hands signify "love, unity, concord, friendship, loyalty" (Maioli, p. 114). Filareto served in the 1530s as Secretary to the Farnese Pope Paul III, and in 1537 became chief advisor to his son, Pier Luigi—a man of evil fame whose corruption is well known through the Life of Benvenuto Cellini. He was created by his father duke of Parma and Piacenza where Filareto accompanied him. Because of his tyrannical rule, he was assassinated in September 1547. Filareto was subsequently tortured and imprisoned for three years. Disabused of ecclesiastical and dynastic politics, Alessandro Farnese gave him the parish of S. Sisto in Viterbo and he died there in 1569. The use of an impresa as a personal emblem was very popular during the period, as were cameos and initials. Filareto's patron, Paul III, was a great lover of glyptic art. The device on the upper cover, an eagle flying over rocks, represents Filareto's fortune untouched by human contingencies and the device, "Este procul," is paraphrased from the Sybil's command to Aeneas's companions not to enter the underworld: "Procul o procul este profani" (Virgil, Aeneid, VI, 258). The Bibliotheca Brookeriana Thucydides is one of seventeen Filareto bindings presently recorded, see Halwas; and six in private hands (the Petrarca was in 2024 with Bortolani). Two others from the Brooker library have recently been offered: Bembo, Epistolarum libri XVI (Lyon: Thibaud Payen, 1540) and Abravanel, Dialogi di amore (Venice: in the house of the sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1541). The other two are the 1535 Aldine Lactantius (last seen in the Esmerian sale, in 1972) and a now-empty binding by Marcantonio Guillery once housing the second part of the 1497 Aldine Iamblichus (last traced in the Wittock sale, in 2004). For the other Brooker examples, with further background on Filareto and his bindings, please see Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. Magnificent Books and Bindings, lot 10 (New York, 11 October 2023) and The Aldine Collection A–C, lot 92 (New York, 12 October 2023). Chancery folio (294 x 194 mm.) Greek type, with some italic and Roman, 55 lines plus headline. collation: πΑA8 ΑA–ΞO8 ΟP4 (-ΟP4): 123 (of 124) leaves (lacking final blank ΟP4; with blank πΑA8). Four-, five, nine-, and twelve-line initial spaces with guide letters. (Dampstaining in upper fore-edge corner affecting text at beginning and end with fore-edge margins of quire ΟP repaired, tear in ΞO1 affecting text and repaired, small ink stain on fore-edge and margins of first six quires.) binding: Roman brown morocco (296 x 202 mm) by Niccolò Franzese, ca. 1544, covers panelled gilt, floral corner tools, three borders formed by a single gilt fillet alternating with double blind fillets, roll-tooled arabesque outer border, inner border of interlocking rectangles, filled with three repeated floral tools, all within frames of blind fillets, front cover gilt- lettered at top THVCYDIDES GREC., gilt arabesque tools in center panel surrounding on the front cover a medallion with an eagle flying over a rocky shore and on the lower two fleurs-de-lys, the lettered mark of ownership APOL | LONII | PHILA | RETI. and a pair of clasped hands, spine in ten compartments with a single, small gilt floral tool in each, traces of four pairs of ties, gilt edges. (Dampstaining on upper fore-edge corners of the covers, mainly lower, two diagonal cuts on front cover, rebacked with original spine laid down, endpapers renewed using period paper, a bit of restoration to spine and extremities.) Half brown morocco folding-case. provenance: Apollonio Filareto (ca. 1505–1569), supralibros impresa — unidentified owner, seventeenth-century inscription "Fr. Dom(ini)cus Rubeus Bonon(ien)sis" on title-page [read as Frater Domenicus Rubens in Cortlandt Bishop sale catalogue] — unidentified owner, eighteenth-century inscription "Sauterive (or Dauterive?)" [as Dauterive in Cortlandt Bishop sale catalogue] — Louis-Alexandre Barbet (1850–1931); Henri Baudoin, Maurice Ader & Librairie Giraud-Badin, Paris, Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de feu M. L.-A. Barbet. Première partie, Paris, 13–14 June 1932, lot 148; purchased by — unidentified owner (FF 26,100) — Cortlandt Field Bishop (1870–1935) — Shirley Douglas Falcke (1889–1957); Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers, New York, The Magnificent French Library formed by the late Cortlandt F. Bishop; the property of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Falcke, 7–8 December 1948, lot 316; purchased by — unidentified owner ($290) — Albert-Louis Natural (1918–2002) — Librairie Quentin, Molènes, Geneva; Catalogue 7 (Geneva, 1985), item 99 (CHF 56,000) — Otto Schäfer (1912–2000), acquired in 1985 (OS 1314) — Otto-Schäfer-Stiftung e.V., Schweinfurt; Sotheby's New York, The Collection of Otto Schäfer. Part I: Italian Books, 8 December 1994, lot 181 ($57,500). acquisition: Purchased at Sotheby's via Martin Breslauer, Inc. references: UCLA 57; Adams T662; Aldo Manuzio tipografa 60; Edit16 55824; Renouard 33/4; USTC 859004; for the binding: Manfred von Arnim, Europäische Einbandkunst aus sechs Jahrhunderten 30; De Marinis, La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, no. 825 and pl. 132 ; A. Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, no. 8; G. D. Hobson, Maioli, Canevari and Others, pp. 112–119

View 1 of Lot 1497: Thucydides, Historiae, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1502, Roman brown morocco by Niccolò Franzese

thucydides, historiae, venice, aldo manuzio, 1502, roman brown morocco by niccolò franzese

The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography... Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1906 Large 8vo (276 x 189 mm). Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, illustrated with photo-reproductions and photogravures, and extra illustrated with 66 items, including documents, autograph letters, engravings, and more, bound in, on stubs, laid down, or window-mounted; faint toning mostly in the margins, occasional spotting, infrequent offsetting. Full crushed red morocco by Macdonald, spine gilt with raised bands and six compartments, boards triple gilt-ruled, board edges and dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; rubbing and light wear at spine extremities and two corners, the binding defective with the front hinge fully cracked, the front board and spine separated from the text block, but holding at the rear hinge, the red silk ribbon detached but present. A finely bound, extra-illustrated, limited edition of Franklin's autobiography. There are 66 additional items included in this work. The highlights include: 1) Document signed by Benjamin Franklin as President of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 23, 1786. Addressed to Treasurer David Rittenhouse, requesting that a payment of £125 be paid to Charles Biddle for salary due him as Vice President of the State. 2) 2-page autograph letter signed from William Carmichael to John Lamb, July 1786, mentioning Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin and discussing prisoners from the Barbary War. 3) One-page autograph letter signed from Peter Collinson to Cadwalader Colden, May 1761, discussing Lord Halifax quitting the Board of Trade, and noting that "Your son David's Electrical Papers I have received from our friend Franklin and have tied them up with your principles to be desposed of as you have directed." 4) 3-page autograph letter signed from John Bigelow to Ellen Douglas Steadman, March 1890, on mourning stationery, discussing legal and political matters. 5) Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Certificate for $1,000, dated 1838, engraved, with a portrait of Franklin. 6) Engraved portraits, many of Franklin, but also Charles II, John Locke, Rev. George Whitehead, John Fothergill, Sir Henry Clinton, and others. 7) Engraved views of New York, Yale College, Westminster in London, and Charleston in South Carolina. 8) A nineteenth-century Franklin-inspired Rebus, "The Art of Making Money … by Doctor Franklin," folded, split along central fold, with a few chips and tears at the edges. 9) Historical prints, such as "Drafting the Declaration of Independence," and more. PROVENANCE Heritage Auctions, 12 November, 2020, lot 47013 (undesignated consignor)

View 1 of Lot 155: Benjamin Franklin |  Franklin's autobiography, extra-illustrated with a signed document, autograph letters, engraved portraits, and more

benjamin franklin | franklin's autobiography, extra-illustrated with a signed document, autograph letters, engraved portraits, and more

Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge: Baskerville, 1762, blue morocco gilt stamped with the monogram of George III, at Kew, inscribed ("Given to Dear George [later King of Hanover] by his Affectionate Aunt and faithfull friend Augusta, Frogmore House, July 9th. 1828."), rubbed--The New Testament. Oxford: Wright and Gill, 1774, blue morocco, inscribed ("Charlotte")--Psalms. Li Cencinquanta Sacrisalmi di Davide ... Tradotti ... da Andrea G. Planta, Strada: Jannetto, 1740, gilt tooled blue morocco, inscribed ("Charlotte Finch"), slightly rubbed, colour somewhat faded; A Version of the Psalms; Originally Written by the Late Rev. James Merrick, Rivington, n.d., inscribed ("Augusta 1802"), worn--A Dictionary of the Bible. Robinson et al., 1792, tree calf, worn, especially at spine--Burkitt, William. An Help and Guide to Christian Families, Rivington et al., 1812, inscribed ("Augusta", and "The Gift of the Countess of Harcourt St Leonard's Hill Sept 27th 1815"), speckled calf, rebacked--Douglas, John. The Criterion; or Rules by which the True Miracles ... are Distinguished from the Spurious, Cadell and Davies, 1807, inscription by the author ("For Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth"), gilt tooled blue morocco, rubbed at joints--Reading, William. The History of ... Jesus Christ ... With Suitable Meditations and Prayers. Also the Lives of the Holy Apostles and Evangelists ... [and] the Blessed Virgin Mary, Watts, 1726, with engravings, inscribed ("Given to the Queen by Her most Dutifull and Affectionate Augusta Windsor Castle Jany 1st 1811"), and with a two page manuscript verse meditation on the front free endpapers, gilt tooled calf, rubbed--Stanhope, George. A Paraphrase and Comment upon the Epistles and Gospels, Beecroft et al., 1775, 4 volumes, inscribed in each volumes ("Augusta Sophia. Given me by my Dear Mama August 7th 1782 Queens Lodge Windsor"), speckled calf, hinges splitting; The Christian's Pattern ... by Thomas a Kempis ... To which are added Meditations and Prayers ... by George Stanhope, Whittingham, 1813, inscribed ("Given to my Dearest Mother by Her Dutifull and Affectionate Augusta Windor Castle Oct 11th 1817"), tree calf, rubbed--Wilson, Thomas. The Sacra Privata, or, Private Meditations and Prayers, Bath: Cruttwell, 1786, first edition, inscribed in two hands ("Given by my Dearest Pss. Augusta to her most attached and affece Mary J. Howe 1791", then "Augusta. Given back to me May 27th by Lady Altamont after poor Mary Howe's Death"), sheep, splitting at joints--Ovid. Metamorphoses ... Translated by Mr Dryden et al., 2 vols, Tonson and Draper, 1751, Queen Charlotte's bookplate, speckled calf, joints splitting and spine cracked in vol. 2--"Adam Fitz-Adam" [i.e. Edward Moore et al.]. The World, Dodsley, 1782, 4 volumes, lacking volume 1, vol. 2 inscribed ("Augusta Sophia Given me by my Dear brother Ernest August 14th 1785 Windsor"), joints splitting and 2 spines cracked--Keysler, John George. Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain, Linde and Field, 1756, first edition, 7 copper engraved plates (3 folding), inscribed ("Given me by Augusta the third November 1812 we went to Knights shop where she bought it", and on the title page "Eliza"), with earlier ownership inscription, speckled calf, rubbed, especially at joints; mostly 8vo, some 4to (23)

a collection of books inscribed by or belonging to her, her sisters, queen charlotte, and charlotte finch, mostly religious works, comprising:

Fine Books and Manuscripts

The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing. With a Chapter on Angling Literature. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1888

The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing. With a Chapter on Angling Literature. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1888 Folio (12 3/4 x 9 in.; 324 x 299 mm). Aquatint title-page printed in red and black after G. Reid by Annan and Swan, aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan, 16 engraved plates on japan paper after and by Stephen Parris, Mrs. A. L. Merritt, C. A. Platt, H. Sandham, and others, 63 engraved head- and tailpieces, historiated initials, and other ornaments after and by Merritt, Platt, J. Adam and others, double-page lithographed map on japan paper after and by J. Bartholomew; light, occasional foxing, chiefly marginal, offsetting from one plate to a text leaf. Publisher's coarse green cloth, front cover wtih gilt vignette of a hawk snatching a salmon from the water, green leaf-patterned endpapers; rubbed, spine slightly faded, upper cloth hinge starting.

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Park, Mungo. highly important series of autograph letters signed, to his wife alice, with other family papers

Park, Mungo. highly important series of autograph letters signed, to his wife alice, with other family papers comprising: i) nineteen autograph letters signed by mungo park, nearly all to his wife Alice or Allison ("My beloved Wife"' "My Dearest Allie"' etc.) at Foulshiels, Selkirk, or Peebles, one to his father-in-law Thomas Anderson 58 pages, 4to, address panels, fragments of red wax seals, postal marks, London and elsewhere in Britain and Africa, 4 January 1801 to 19 November 1805, later pencil markings and deletions [by Park's 1815 editor], seal tears, considerable occasional wear, tear and dust-staining, some paper losses including bottom half of one page, seven of the signatures excised The first fourteen of these letters cover the four sparsely-documented years of 1801 to the beginning of 1805 when Park, already famous after the publication in 1799 of his account of his gruelling and hazardous 1795-97 expedition to the River Niger in West Africa, was largely kicking his heels waiting for the chance to undertake a second expedition up the Niger. He then had some temporary employment in a medical practice in Peebles, although, as the present letters show, he was often engaged in other business in London. Writing to his beloved wife Alice (nee Anderson), whom he had married on 2 August 1799, Park describes his journeying down from Scotland to London, family members and friends encountered (including an introduction to "[John] Home author of Douglas": "...he told me that if I could not find a situation to my mind he would procure me one of Best farms under his grace [the Duke of Buccleuch]..."), and other domestic news. He expresses delight on hearing her "sentiments about going abroad" to New South Wales, although he has not yet "accepted of any situation"' and speculates about the kind of life they may have there if he becomes surgeon to a regiment ("...I am constantly upon the look out, all day going from place to place and at night taking a lesson by the fire side..."), expresses dejection at the dashing of their hopes of this situation, discusses financial arrangements, and constantly expresses affection for her and their family, from whom, on 27 March 1801, he has been absent for three months ("...alas I have received nothing but one disappointment after another..."). In December 1803 he writes after another period of absence, still waiting for news of "the expedition" ("...I am to see Sir Joseph [Banks] tomorrow..."), and expressing how much he misses her and "all the children"' also declaring: "I can easily suppose that there will be for a time a want of surgeons about Peebles-it serves them right." ...Dearest of women cherish in your Mind the remembrance of one that loves you dearer than life, it will make my absence seem short, it will fix your affections on our Dear Children, and will add double Charms to that happy moment when by the blessing of god I again clasp you in my arms... As he waits for the promised expedition to materialise, he asks for Betty "to give the Sword & Pistol a rub as they will probably be called for soon"; announces on 9 January 1804 that "The expedition will sail on the 25th . of this month" unless deferred; consoles her repeatedly on her sorrow for his absence ("...I anticipate the distant day of my return when I shall again clasp my allie to my heart never again to part..."); gives her an outline of the expected expedition ("...I assure you my love that I have not the smallest doubt of accomplishing the whole in one year from the time we leave England...Government have no wish that I should run the smallest risk, the great object of the Expedition being to keep up a friendly intercourse with the Kings of the Country..."); refers to Lord Camden and others involved in the expedition, and the slow, drawn-out preparations for it (including buying rings and "five hundred Pounds worth of Beads"); mentions his probably seeing Mr [William] Pitt about it; expresses confidence in Sir Joseph Banks (who "thinks that nothing can be more important than the object of our Journey and I believe he has thought of nothing else ever since I told him"); sends her money to ensure her comfort for "one year"; and consoles her with the thought that on their return they will have made "something handsome in the money way and we will have gained a reputation that will ensure us Success in whatever line". He thanks her for the receipt of a lock of her hair ("...The hand of providence will surely bring us together when happier hours & Days will pass than any we have yet enjoyed..."); assures her "that nothing on Earth could induce me to proceed if I found it would be attended with Danger"("...the unhealthiness of the Climate is the only thing we have to fear..."); and, on 28 January 1805, announces that they are sailing "tomorrow morning"' promising that he will take every opportunity of writing to her. The next three letters, from 12 March to 29 May 1805, are written during the expedition, from on board ship off the Island of St Jago (giving an account of their sea-voyage through the Bay of Biscay), Kayee, River Gambia ("...We set off for the Interior Tomorrow Morning...every thing looks favourable at present...we have been Successful thus far, beyond my highest expectations..."), and Badoo near Tambacunda ("...I am happy to inform you that we are now half through our Journey without the smallest accident or unpleasant Circumstance...") ...The Natives instead of being frightened at us, look on us as their best friends and the Kings have not only granted us protection but sent people to go before us. The Soldiers are in the highest Spirits...I Expect to have an opportunity of writing you from Konkodoo or Bammakoo by some of the slave traders, but...you need not be Surprized if you should not hear from me for some months... ...we set forwards this evening for Tambacunda and in two days more we Reach Baniferile near the Falime Rivers. In the next letter, six months later, the tone changes drastically. Writing to his father-in-law, Thomas Anderson, on 16 November, Park breaks to him "the most sorrowful Tidings that ever reached your Ears"' giving a detailed account of the death of his son, Park's brother-in-law, Alexander Anderson ...He was affected with the fever, but very gently, on the 30th of June at the town of Kandy to the East of the black river...when we reached Dababoo, the frontier town of Bambara he was unable to manage his horse...in this Conveyance he was Carried 50 miles with great ease and Comfort...on our arrivale [sic] at Marrabas he walked from the Canoe to the town...but alas alas! on the night of Oct 24th he was affected with a bilious Diarrhoea...he considered the hour of his departure as at hand...In this manner Death gradually approached and on the morning of the 28th ...he gave a groan...and instantly expired... Three days later, on 19 November 1805, from Sansanding (docketed as received "at Mr Windhams office 4th October" [1806]), park writes his very last, moving letter, to his wife, breaking to her also news of the death of her brother My Beloved Wife It grieves me to the heart to write any thing that will bring a tear from your lovely Eyes or a Sigh from your Bosom...I pray that the almighty may give you Sufficient strength and support you under the most severe dispensation of his providence that has yet occurred to you in the course of your life...Your Brother Alexr my Dear friend is no more... He assures her, nevertheless, that he himself will return safely ...you may be led to Consider my situation as a great deal worse than it realy [sic] is. It is true my Dear friends Mr . anderson and G. Scott have both bid adiew to the things of this World and the greater part of the Soldiers have died on the march during the Rainy season...[but] there is no danger of sickness and I have still a sufficient force to protect me from any insult in Sailing down the river to the Sea...we Expect to be in England on the first of May...if this letter should reach you before my return you may be sure that I will make no delay...I do not expect to have another opportunity of writting [sic] till my return... this is mungo park's last surviving letter. It is not known for certain what happened to him and his already hugely depleted party, but from reports which circulated later in 1806 it seems that within weeks of this final letter Park had sailed up the Niger past Timbuctoo as far as Boussa where, for some reason, natives blocked their passage. In the ensuing fight the entire expedition party, but for one slave, was killed. ii) two autograph letters signed by alice park: the first (signed "Allie Anderson") to her future husband mungo, written seven months before their wedding, expressing great happiness and affection for Park, looking forward eagerly to their married life together ("...I do think that we may be as happy as they generaly [sic] are whom mutual affection unite in that bond of union where both are of one soul and one mind..."), and thanking him for the "Picture" of him which is "an admirable and Striking likeness" 2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf, postal marks, Selkirk, 2 January 1799, seal tear, slight soiling the second (signed "Alice Park") written over forty years later and shortly before her death, to her daughter, Elizabeth Meredith, about money and health matters; the letter preserved by her daughter enclosing what would seem to be a lock of alice park's hair 3 pages, 4to, address panel, impression of seal in black wax, "Tewsday Evening"' postmarked 15 January 1840, seal tear, wear at folds, slightly soiled iii) autograph letter to mungo park signed by John Sullivan (Under Secretary of State for War), explaining that the change of Ministry will probably not affect their "African plans" and that the new Under Secretary, [Edward] Cooke, is "already apprised of the outline and of the allowances that have been settled" for Park 2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf, impression of seal in black wax, postal marks, Chesterfield Street, 18 May 1804, seal tear, light soiling iv) autograph letter to alice park signed by Jeremy Robinson, sending on to her a letter by her husband which was aquired by Robinson "after the wreck of the vessel by which it was originally intended to have been conveyed" ...Mr Park had commenced his travels previous to my leaving Africa which was considerable [sic] later than the date of this letter...Although I have not the honor of a personal acquaintance with Mr Park yet no person participates in his wellfare more sincerely than I do... 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf, traces of red wax seal, London, 23 February 1806, seal tear, some wear, splitting, fraying, spotting and soiling The letter Robinson enclosed (preserved "in as decent a state as circumstances would permit") is presumably one of those by Mungo Park noted above. v) autograph letter signed by mungo park's son, thomas park, to his mother, giving news of his life on board ship and promising to write from Madeira 2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf, postal marks, H.M.S. Sybella, Plymouth Sound, 26 April 1827, seal tear together with an autograph letter signed by Bernard Fry giving an account of Thomas Park's death written to Park's uncle Thomas Anderson, 4 pages, 4to, 28 January 1828, seal tears, spotting; a contemporary manuscript copy of a poem by "A.H."' "Lines on the Death of Mr Thomas Park son of the celebrated Mungo Park"' 2 pages, 4to, light staining; and a contemporary presscutting with another poem on the death of Thomas Park ("Who died at Accra, in consequence of poison being administered to him by the English priests, just as he was on the point of proceeding to explore the interior of Africa"). In attempting to follow in the steps of his father and to find out more about what had happened to him twenty-two years earlier, Mungo Park's second son, Thomas, a midshipman on H.M.S. Sybella, met a comparable fate. After journeying 140 miles inland towards Boussa, he died of fever on 31 October 1827. vi) other family papers, comprising some thirteen letters on family and business matters written to Mungo Park's daughter, Elizabeth Meredith, by her brother Thomas Anderson and others (1846-54); two letters to Thomas Anderson by Mungo's brother Adam Park about Mr and Mrs Meredith's finances (1826); related letters to Anderson; and contemporary transcripts of three poems, one translated from "an extempore Arab Song" c.60 pages, chiefly 4to and 8vo, occasional light wear After his fellow Scotsman James Bruce (1730-94), Mungo Park (1771-1806) was the second great early British explorer of Africa. His memoir of his first arduous and heroic journey to the River Niger in 1795-97, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, is one of the classics of African travel literature. It is supplemented by the publication in 1815 of Park's Journal (conveyed to the Gambia with his other final communications by his guide Isaaco) on his equally heroic second journey to the Niger in 1805, from which Park never returned. the present major collection of personal and family papers of this legendary explorer is largely unpublished. Edited or abbreviated versions of his letters to his wife on 26 April, 29 May, and 19 November 1805 (the final moving letter before his death) have been published in later editions of his Travels (e.g. 1860 edition, pp.340-2, 344-5, 372-3), as also his letter to his father-in-law on 15 November 1805 (from another, incomplete copy dated 10 November, in the 1838 edition, p.88). Both these and the remaining, apparently unpublished, materials throw vivid light on Park's activities, his psychology, his affectionate relationship with his wife, and on the series of events which kept them painfully apart for so much of their relatively brief married life, as well as on other aspects of the preparation and undertaking of his last tragic expedition. this is a unique, illuminating and highly evocative biographical source.

park, mungo. highly important series of autograph letters signed, to his wife alice, with other family papers

Bibliophile III

Norton, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah [neé Sheridan, afterwards Lady Stirling -Maxwell]. Stuart of Dunleath. A Story of Modern Times. London: Colburn and co., 1851, half-titles in volumes 1 and 2, advertisements at the end of volume 1, final blank at the end of volume 3, original green fine-ripple cloth decorated in blind, spines lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers with advertisements, [Sadler 1838a, i.e. copy II; Wolff 5192], spines slightly faded, otherwise a near fine copy--Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret. A Country Gentleman and his Family. London: Macmillan and co., 1886, 3 volumes, half-titles in volumes 1 and 2, advertisements at the end of volume 2, original slate sand-grain cloth, covers ruled in black, spines lettered in gilt, white endpapers, [Sadleir 1849 (but with black endpapers and advertisements also at the end of volume 3); Wolff 5230], some slight offsetting, minor edge-wear to binding--[Harrison, Mary St. Leger.] "Lucas Malet". Mrs. Lorimer. A Sketch in Black and White. London: Macmillan and co., 1883, 2 volumes, half-titles, advertisements at the end of volume 2, original blue sand-grain cloth, blocked in black, lettered in gilt, dark crimson brown endpapers, [not in Sadleir; Wolff 3025], very slight wear to edges of binding; Colonel Enderby's Wife. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885, 1885, 3 volumes, half-titles, advertisements, some pencil annotations on endpapers, original scarlet fine-ribbed cloth, blocked in black on covers, spines gilt, black endpapers, [not in Sadleir; Wolff 3020], some slight wear on spines with tiny nicks at head and foot-- [Hope, Kate] "Proavia". Through my Spectacles. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878, 3 volumes, half-titles, original green cloth, monogram in blind on covers, spines gilt, partially unopened, [not in Sadleir or Wolff], minor discoloration to endpapers--[Hector, Annie French.] "Mrs Alexander". The Executor. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883, 3 volumes, half-titles, printed in dark blue, original navy-blue cloth, floral endpapers, [Sadleir 34; Wolff 3117 (1885 reprint)], minor foxing to fore-edges, slight discoloration to endpapers, minor wear; A Crooked Path. London: Hurst and Blackett , 1889, 3 volumes, second edition, original cloth--Batson, Mrs Henrietta M. Adam the Gardener. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1894, 3 volumes, advertisements at the end of volume 3, original green cloth decorated and lettered in black and gilt, green endpapers, [not in Sadleir or Wolff], ownership stamps of Robert Brown, very slight bumping to corners, minor wear and fading--Douglas, George, pseud.[i.e. Lady Gertrude Georgina Douglas afterwards Stock.] Brown as a Berry. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874, 3 volumes, half-titles, advertisements in volumes 1 and 2, original brown cloth decorated in black, spines gilt, pale yellow endpapers, [not in Sadleir or Wolff], contemporary ownership signatures in all volumes of "H. McN. Ferme", minor wear to binding--Romer, Mrs Isabella F. The Bird of Passage; or, Flying Glimpses of Many Lands. London: Richard Bentley, 1849, 3 volumes, frontispiece in volume 1, half-title in volume 1, original mauve-pink cloth prettily decorated in blind and with bird and nest design in gilt, spines lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers, [not in Sadleir or Wolff]. book-labels of Louisa Traherne, possibly recased with hinges repaired, some slight spotting, slight fading to spines--Lemore, Clara. Panhala: a wayside wizard. London: Hurst and Blackett, 3 volumes, 1895, half-titles, advertisements at the end of volume 3, original olive-brown cloth decorated in dark green, spines lettered in gilt, green endpapers, [not in Sadleir; Wolff 4058], minor edge-wear--Martin, Mrs. Herbert. From the Silent Past. London: Ward & Downey, 1886, 2 volumes, half-title in volume 2, advertisements at the end of volume 2, original purple-brown cloth gilt, dark brown endpapers, [not in Sadleir or Wolff], ownership stamp of "E.A. Clare", some slighty spotting--Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life. London: Richard Bentley, 1852, 3 volumes, half -titles in volumes 1 and 3, preceded by advertisements in volume 1 (as called for), original blue fine-ripple-grain cloth, decorated in blind, spines gilt, preserved in cloth folding box  [Wolff 4821], booplates of Charles Webb and Marshall Laird, presentation inscriptions on title pages from M.A. Webb to Julia  Winstanley, new endpapers, possibly recased, slight wear to edges of binding; first editions,  8vo or 12mo (31)

collection of 13 works in 37 volumes:

Vivien: The Vivien Leigh Collection

i) Lord Alfred Douglas.  Sonnets. London: Rich and Cowan, 1935, 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH ("Vivien 1935 | p.50") on the front pastedown endpaper, original blue cloth; ii) [Augustus John]. Drawings. London: Faber & Faber, 1945, 4to, fifth impression, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH ("for Vivien from John | see p.11") on the front free endpaper, original blue cloth, some light soiling to upper edge of first few leaves; iii) [George Bernard Shaw]. Shaw on Music. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1955, 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH ("Darling | The wrong collection | I fear : but for the | right girl. | With my love, | Jack | July 1st 1960") on the title page, original printed wrappers; iv) Jean Giraudoux. Duel of Angels. London: Methuen, 1958, 8vo, JOHN MERIVALE’S COPY with his ownership inscription dated 28 January 1960 and his annotations throughout, postcard portrait of Vivien Leigh loosely inserted, original maroon cloth; v) Joy Adamson. Born Free. New York: Pantheon Books, 1960, large 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH ("For darling Vivien | who is beautiful and | only half-tame too! | With my love | Jack | 20.6.60. N.Y.") on the front free endpaper, original green cloth; vi) Philip and Cecil N. Sidney Woolf. Stendhal on Love. Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, [n.d.], large 8vo, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH NOTE LOOSELY INSERTED ("For my beloved Angelica; this book will explain to you far better than I can exactly how and why I love you - Jack"), original black cloth, all edges pink, slipcase (6)

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