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British The Blues Brothers Movie Poster 

A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a>&nbsp;for the film <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Blues%20Brothers&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Blues Brothers</a>.<ul><li>Universal Studios.</li><li>Soundtrack poster.</li><li>Unfolded and linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

The Blues Brothers Movie Poster

Film poster for the French release of The Blues Brothers musical comedy.<ul><li>John Landis (American, 1950 -).</li><li>Cinema International Corporation.</li><li>Paper with black, white, yellow and red illustration. </li></ul>

The Blues Brothers French Movie Poster 

The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin

Tiberius Cavallo The History and Practice of Aerostation. London, For the Author, 1785 8vo (218 x 138 mm, uncut). Author's ad on the final page of text, with 2 engraved folding plates at the rear; occasional light foxing, a few instances of dust-soiling along fore-edges, the title chipped and toned along the edges, the inscriptions faded, a small loss in the margin of leaf L1. Mostly disbound; without the front board and the spine, but retaining the original blue paper board at rear, with the upper two cords intact. First edition. A significant association copy, given by Benjamin Franklin to his close friend Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours inscribed: "To Mr. DuPont de Nemours From His Obliged & Obedt Servt B. Franklin July 1785." Below is a second presentation inscription, likely in the hand of Pierre Samuel Dupont: "A ma chère cousine en Carolina, Aoust 1799, DuPont de Nemours, Souvenir du Bon Homme Richard." The first book in English devoted to early aeronautical experimentation. While in Paris, Franklin took a keen interest in the Montgolfier brothers and their newly invented hot-air balloon, called an aréostat. He witnessed the first unmanned balloon flight in August 1783, and the first manned flight that November. In fact, Franklin was among the scientists who signed an official certificate for the Montgolfier brothers, as noted by Cavallo (p. 50). Cavallo describes various earlier balloon experiments, but focuses largely on the Montgolfier brothers. He also speculates on the scientific principles behind aerostation, and the practical applications for ballooning. Franklin was more reticent when discussing the new technology; when asked about the new invention's usefulness, Franklin is alleged to have replied, "What good is a newborn baby?" Franklin met Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours while in France, and they became close friends and correspondents. Both were enlightenment thinkers, bonding during long discussions on liberal reforms, science, and politics. As such, Cavallo's book would have been of interest to them both. They also shared relatively humble roots—Du Pont was the son of a Huguenot watchmaker and an impoverished noblewoman, while Franklin's father was a candle- and soapmaker. Du Pont's inscription to his "chère cousine" is particularly charming, given its reference to Franklin as "Bon Homme Richard," or Poor Richard, his popular character and pseudonym. Though we are unable to trace the exact "chère cousine en Carolina," Du Pont's son, Victor Marie, was the French Consul at Charleston, South Carolina, from around 1793 to 1797. He returned to France in the summer of 1799, so it seems likely that the inscription's recipient was, in some way, related to him. Both father and son would immigrate to the United States in 1800, perhaps bringing the book back with them to Franklin's homeland. Franklin's presentation inscription, though quite faded, was authenticated by Edwin Wolf in his survey of books that belonged to Franklin. REFERENCES ESTC T121745; Wolf and Hayes, Library of Ben Franklin 563; Leibmann & Wahl 644 PROVENANCE Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours (gift inscription from Benjamin Franklin dated 1785) — unidentified Du Pont cousin (gift inscription dated 1799) — George Morland (signature) — Christie's New York, 14 December 1984, lot 195 (undesignated consignor) — Stuart E. Karu (Sotheby's New York, 16 June 1992, lot 151)

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tiberius cavallo | the first book in english on aerostation, an association copy inscribed by benjamin franklin

[New Jersey — Proprietors of the Eastern-Division]

[New Jersey — Proprietors of the Eastern-Division] A Bill in the Chancery of New-Jersey at the Suit of John Earl of Stair, and others, Proprietors of the Eastern-Division of New-Jersey; against Benjamin Bond, and some other Persons of Elizabeth-Town, distinguished by name of the Clinker Lot Right Men. With Three large Maps, done from Copper-Plates. To which is added; the Publications of the Council of Proprietors of East New-Jersey, and Mr. Nevill's Speeches to the General Assembly, concerning the Riots committed in New-Jersey, and the Pretences of the Rioters, and their Seducers. These Papers will give a better Light into the History and Constitution of New-Jersey, than any thing hitherto published, the mMatters whereof have been chiefly Collected from Records. New York: Published by Subscription: Printed by James Parker, in New-York, 1747; and a few copies are to be sold by him, and Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia Folio (349 x 216 mm). Text in two columns, three folded engraved maps with contemporary outline color, engraved and printed by James Turner in Boston after Lewis Evans of Philadelphia, the third map on two sheets joined; Moderately spotted and toned throughout, a darker stain affecting leaves U2–3, a small area of offsetting in the lower margin of leaf 2C2, the maps with a few very short tears at edges and some inky marginal fingerprint marks (apparently originating in James Turner's printshop), Map No. II with a tiny paper repair at bottom edge, trimmed along the platemark at right edge without touching the printing, Map No. III with small chips, splits, and tears, but professionally restored and laid-down on Japanese tissue. Contemporary marbled boards backed with modern calf; boards quite worn, hinges reinforced. Half blue morocco folding-case. First edition. The Bill in the Chancery of New-Jersey, printed by James Parker and published in partnership with Benjamin Franklin, deals with a lengthy legal dispute between the colony's proprietors and the Elizabethtown Associates over land titles and taxation. The controversy eventually led to a major local uprising, now sometimes seen as a regional precursor to the American Revolution. The problems that this bill sought to resolve began in 1664, when Charles II granted his brother James, the Duke of York, New Jersey as a reward for having overthrown the Dutch in New York. Soon after, his colonial governor, Colonel Richard Nicholls, allowed a group of English settlers to buy a tract of land just to the West of Staten Island from the Lenni Lenape people. Their deed was confirmed by Nicholls in June of 1664. The tract was then surveyed, a town laid out, and Elizabethtown was established. Meanwhile, back in England, James gave his colony to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. When their governor arrived, he demanded that the Elizabethtown settlers pay quitrents on the lands they had settled. The Elizabethtown Associates, as they came to be known, citing the lack of a provision for quitrents on their deed, refused to pay. "Thus began one of the most famous controversies in the early history of New Jersey. Over the years the numbers of disputants increased dramatically as more individuals began to own shares and fractions of shares of the proprietorship of New Jersey" (Felcone). The Associates continued to survey and sell their lands, while the proprietors repeatedly tried legal and civil suits against them. Over time, the dispute stretched into the third and fourth generations of Elizabethtown residents. The newer Associates, known as the Clinker Lot Right Men, even established a legal fund to help defend their titles. James Alexander, a surveyor and prominent attorney in New York and New Jersey, stepped in on behalf of the Proprietors to try and settle the dispute. In 1741, he suggested that the suit be settled in Chancery by English Bill, where one decree could settle all the individual suits simultaneously. Alexander prepared his bill (pp. 3–81), a legal argument "of great subtlety and complexity," and submitted it in April 1745 (Streeter). He then shifted his focus to having it printed and distributed. Lewis Evans, an associate of Franklin agreed to draw the maps, while James Turner, a Boston silversmith, would engrave and print them. The text sheets would be printed by Parker in New York. However, securing the funding took time. By April 1746, with a war of words ongoing in the New York press and the Clinker Lot Right Men riots at their peak (appendix, pp. 1–11), a second and third Bill were drafted to calm the situation (appendix, pp. 13–24, and pp. 25–39). The dispute between the Elizabethtown Associates and the proprietors would never, in fact, be fully resolved—it was still ongoing when the Revolutionary War broke outm making the claims of the proprietors moot. The three engraved maps are among the earliest American maps of the region. Per the imprint, the price of a bound copy with colored maps was 3 Pounds. According to Felcone, "it would appear that about 60 sets of the maps were 'colored.'" As such, this is a rare survival in the deluxe format of an important colonial text. The maps are: "Map I" shows the middle British colonies along the coastline from Boston Harbor to Cape Hatteras, the cartouche provides a key to place-names in English and Dutch, and a coloring guide. "Map II" is of New Jersey, centered on Essex County and Elizabethtown, also showing all of New York City, with "Part of Pensylvania" and "Part of New York" at the corners. "Map III" shows the disputed area in great detail, with a grid and individual properties marked and titled. The area is bordered with the Raritan River on the south, Hackinsack Bay and the shores of Staten Island to the east, the Cushetunk Hills at the west, and the North Mountains to the north. REFERENCES Miller 426; ESTC W2730; Evans 6021–6024; Felcone 197; Streeter sale II:918 PROVENANCE Bennington Gill (signature on title, dated 1855) — Fred Gerken (purchased from Roger A. Lyon, twentieth-century pencil inscription on front pastedown)

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new jersey | a bill in the chancery of new-jersey, with three of the earliest american maps of the region

Thomas Jefferson Printed broadside document signed (“Th: Jefferson”) as third President, on a full sheet of wove paper (258 x 404 mm; unwatermarked), accomplished in a clerical hand, Washington, 22 November 1804, being the appointment of William Bache as Surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia, countersigned by the Secretary of State (“James Madison”), embossed paper seal of the United States; some light, scattered fox spots, some fold separations with tiny losses at intersecting folds. [Accompanied by:] Catherine Wistar Bache, autograph letter signed (“your Sister C. Bache”) to Caspar Wistar (“My Dear Brother”), 2 pages (245 x 168 mm) on a bifolium of laid paper (watermarked JLG), integral leaf with autograph address panel (“Caspar Wistar M. D. | Philadelphia”) and reception docket; some soiling to address panel, seal tear and repair. [And by:] Contemporary clerical copy of a circular letter from Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin to William Bache, 1½ pages (251 x 198) on a bifolium of laid paper (watermarked dove and olive branch | Aimes & Co), “Treasury Department” [Washington,] 12 June 1804, docketed on verso of integral leaf “Copy Letter from the Secy of State to the Collector June 12. 1804.”; faintly browned, upper corners crumpled. The three items housed in a fitted blue cloth portfolio, front cover gilt-lettered. An intriguing small archive related to Dr. William Franklin Bache’s efforts to secure a government sinecure. Although Dr. Bache had a practice, he was experiencing poor health and some financial difficulties at the beginning of the new century. His wife, Catherine Wistar Bache, here writes to her brother, a prominent Philadelphia physician—and successor to Thomas Jefferson as president of the American Philosophical Society—to ask him to intercede with President Jefferson, mentioning, in passing, the pending Louisiana Purchase: “Two days ago I received letters from Doct. Bache … In which Doct. B. wishes me to have an application made to the President for him. He thought of my applying to Mrs. Randolph but Congress being now engaged on the Louisiana business I think the more Immediately an application is made the greater the probability of success, and I also believe that an application from a Philadela. friend particularly from Doct. Wistar will have more weight. William wishes to obtain the Land Office or Surveyor Generalship; the business of the hospital is extremely laborious without an adequate compensation from excessive fatigue. Doct. B. has again been attack'd with a bilious fever which confined him to his bed for a week. He has been in the habit of seeing from 30 to 40 patients daily and without any assistance even to put up medicine which renders it too fatiguing for any person to continue It long without a more liberal establishment. His exertions have been attended with great success, having lost but 7 out of 400 patients and 6 of those were drunkards. … If it is not disagreeable to you to write to the President on the subject it will be conferring on us a very weighty obligation. If you think this request improper don't hesitate to decline it. … From a conversation Dr. Bache had with Mr. Gallatin last winter there is great reason to believe the appointment may be obtained if applied for before the vacancy is filled.” Caspar Wistar honored his sister’s request, writing apologetically to President Jefferson scarcely two weeks later, 16 November 1803, “It has happened to me more than once, to feel great pain & regret while I was writing to you, on account of the trouble I occasioned you, & the liberty I was taking, in soliciting promotion &ca., for the persons in question. I assure you those sensations occur with unusual force on the present occasion, which is this—Dr. Bache has nearly concluded his tour [of] attendance on the Missisippi Boat[-men], for this year, & I should suppose with great success, as he has lost but [7] out of 400 Patients he has however been sick twice, & is so much discouraged, by the smallness of the Compensation, & the severity of the duty, that he has requested my Sister to solicit for him the place of Land-Officer, which he supposes to be vacant” (Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. McClure, 42:12–13). Jefferson endorsed Wistar’s letter “Bache Wm to be land officer N.O.,” and while that office did not come to him, another even more suitable did, as evidenced by the present presidential appointment: “To All Who Shall See These Presents, Greeting: Know Ye, That reposing special Trust and Confidence in the Integrity, Diligence and Discretion of William Bache, of Pennsylvania I have nominated, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, Do Appoint him Surveyor for the Port of Philadelphia and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfil the Duties of that Office according to law; And to have and to hold the said Office, with all the Rights and Emoluments thereunto legally appertaining, unto him the said William Bache during the Pleasure of the President of the United States for the time being. In Testimony whereof, I have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.” Dr. Bache held this position until his death in 1820. The final component of this pocket archive is a clerical circular letter from Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin regarding the necessity of bonds for “Vessels being bound for Hispaniola.”

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thomas jefferson | an appointment for franklin’s grandson

(Benjamin Franklin) Adventures of Franklin, illustrated school exercise worksheet. London: Publish'd by W. & T. Darton, April 5, 1808 Engraved writing blank (478 x 384 mm). Ten engraved vignettes, inscribed by a student; edges toned and chipped with a few short closed tears, two repaired at verso, short puncture within ink line under the "ov" of "Improvement," a few stray spots and stains, blue ink spots to verso. Glazed and framed (525 x 430 mm). A charming glimpse into Franklin's legacy among students abroad. The present exercise worksheet features ten vignettes of various scenes from Franklin's life, with a central blank for a student's penmanship practice. Among the scenes are young Franklin with his father, apprenticing at his brother's printing-house, distributing newspapers, leaving Boston, arriving in Philadelphia for the first time, serving as an ambassador in Paris, becoming President of Pennsylvania, conducting his kite experiment, opening his printing shop, and attending a Quaker Meeting. The worksheet was printed in London and presumably completed by a young English schoolchild, demonstrating Franklin's international reach. The student has written in an elegant hand a maxim not from Father Abraham, but from Proverbs: "Improvement. Train up a Child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." Similar examples are held at the Bodleian Library and American Philosophical Society. REFERENCES Cf. American Philosophical Society, Mss.973.C683; University of Oxford, Bodleian Library educational folder 5 (21a)

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(benjamin franklin) | adventures of franklin, illustrated school worksheet

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

McMullen, John, Empresario of Texas A significant archive of letters dealing with the estate and family of John McMullen, Irish Empresario and co-founder of the McMullen-McGloin Colony in Texas Approximately 42 letters, mostly autograph letters signed by Jacob Waelder in San Antonio, Texas, to John McMullen ("Friend McMullen") in Mauch Chunk (present-day Jim Thorpe), Pennsylvania, 12 December 1834 to 22 February 1869, totaling approximately 105 pages on a variety of blue and white papers (various sizes), a few accompanied by original envelopes (stamps clipped away), also accompanied by a few fragmentary letters; a very few letters with short tears or fold separations, but generally fine condition. John McMullen was born in Ireland in 1785 and came to the United States as a young man, living first in Maryland and then Georgia. In 1810 he married a widow, Esther Espada Cummings, and was a successful merchant in Savannah for more than a decade. But in the 1820s, the couple moved to Matamoros, Mexico. Perhaps tutored by his wife, McMullen quickly became fluent in Spanish after the move. McMullen’s business success continued, and in 1828 he was granted an empresario contract by the Mexican government to establish a colony in Texas. Mexico required landholders to be Roman Catholics, so McMullen, a Catholic Irish emigrant, was a qualified candidate. He travelled to New York and Philadelphia the next year with his partner, James McGloin (who had married McMullen’s step-daughter) to recruit Irish colonists. The two men returned to Texas later that year with several hundred colonists to settle a vast area of land between the Nueces and Medina rivers; the town of San Patricio was established in 1831 as part of the colony. In the foment of the Texas Revolution, McMullen was elected a delegate to the Consultation of 1835 and appointed to the General Council of the provisional government of Texas. Because of its proximity to Mexico, San Patricio suffered greatly during the Revolution, even though most of its residents opposed the war. McMullen found himself unpopular, if not reviled, and after his property had been vandalized and his cattle driven off, he sold out his parcels to McGloin and moved to San Antonio about 1838, where he again worked as a merchant. His wife died in San Antonio in 1846, and on 21 January 1853, McMullen was murdered at his home, perhaps during an attempted burglary, perhaps by an assassin. The crime was never solved, but one tradition is that the assailant was a boy he had adopted at the age of nine in 1833, who was baptized as José Antonio de Jesus in San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio. His nephew and namesake, John McMullen, son of Neal, his late brother, travelled to Texas from Pennsylvania to claim the estate for himself and his siblings. An eventual settlement was reached between John McMullen, who had become administrator of the estate, and the grandchildren of his wife, represented by John J. McGloin, one of the grandsons of Esther McMullen and the administrator of her half of the community property. The estate was divided equally among the respective heirs. Most of the correspondence here is written to John McMullen by Jacob Waelder, a lawyer and newspaper publisher from Pennsylvania (though born in Germany), who moved to San Antonio in 1852. Presumably John McMullen the nephew knew Waelder from Pennsylvania and trusted him to look after his interests in Texas. The earliest piece of correspondence in the lot is the first four pages only of a letter written to Empresario John McMullen by an unknown colonist at San Patricio, 12 December 1834, commenting on the local elections and complaining that promised land grants have not been made. Next are two letters written from San Antonio to John McMullen the nephew of the Empresario on 3 April 1853, shortly after his uncle's death. One is from Edward Miles, the first administrator of McMullen's estate. Miles provides a highly detailed narrative of McMullen's final days and death. "Since Sept last I resided in one of your uncle John McMullen's houses and within a few feet of his residence. … the old man lived entirely alone in the rear part of a two story building … and he had neighbors all around him—one of these a Negro woman named 'Jane' lived in a small house in the rear of your uncle's & in passing to get water out of the River very early on the morning of the 21st of Janry (ult) saw a hole through the wall in the rear of the house where your uncle lived and 'mistrusted' something. She called Elizabeth's (who was up at the time) attention to the hole who called me and said Oh Mr. Miles there is a great hole in the wall of 'Pa''s house and I am sure he has been murdered and Robbed." Miles describes breaking in the door and trying to wake McMullen, to no avail. His narrative continues, "The Mayor had handbills posted offering a reward for the Murderer—many persons were questioned—a great many enquiries were put on foot and some arrests were made, yet so far the affair is involved in Darkness, in mystery—his trunks had been broken open & pillaged or ransacked $68 in Silver was found in the Table Drawer—my own opinion is that the Murder's object was money & I believe that in this he failed. Some think that the object was for papers—the old man was constantly improving his property, and was always hard run for money." After a dramatic peroration in which he claims the scene of the murder was worse than anything he had seen on the battlefield during the Texas Revolution, Miles describes the holdings of McMullen's estate: "I am the administrator—the Estate is possessed of some fine property in this City & I presume that he has some valuable Lands—my Inventory is not yet considered complete, but I have given Bonds for $23.000. … Half of his Estate is claimed by the McGloins as Community property on the side of his deceased wife. …" The final page of this letter bears a note of warning to John McMullen, signed by his brothers James and Anthony, and written from Philadelphia on 12 May 1853: "We think it looks very strange that this Edward Miles lived Next Door to unkles And unkel said He lived out on a farm. John Place No Confidence in Edward Miles. …" John McMullen acted on this warning and had himself made executor of his uncle's estate. The second letter from 3 April is from the San Antonio attorneys Hewitt & Newton; it provides an overview of the McMullen estate and concludes by noting "that the poor old Gentleman was most basely & fowly murdered & that the perpetrators of the dastardly & cowardly act has not yet been discovered." The bulk of the remaining correspondence, beginning with a letter of 9 June 1854, comprises letters to McMullen from his San Antonio lawyer Jacob Waelder, describing the unwinding of the estate, including much information on McMullen's land holdings, and ultimate disposition of the properties between the McMullens and McGloins. REFERENCES cf. “John (Juan) McMullen: Irish Empresario & Co-founder of the McMullen & McGloin Colony,” reprinted with permission from San Patricio de Hibernia by Rachel Bluntzer Hebert (Eakin Press, 1981) (http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/irishmcmullen.htm)

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mcmullen, john, empresario of texas | an archive relating to the co-founder of the mcmullen-mcgloin colony in texas

Graham, Benjamin The Intelligent Investor. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949 8vo (210 x 136 mm). Early printing with code F-Y on copyright page indicating June 1949, the earliest being April 1949; leaves lightly toned, a few stray marginal stains. Original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered; lacking dust jacket, extremities rubbed, particularly head and foot of spine, corners bumped, fore-edge spotted lightly. First edition, inscribed by the author to front free endpaper: "To Judge Hutcheson, with respect, Benj Graham, December 1949." The present copy of Graham's foundational text on value investing was inscribed in the year of publication to Judge Charles Sterling Hutcheson, who served as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia from 1944 to 1969. Hutcheson decided several key Civil Rights cases, including one that declared the Stanley Plan—statutes which aimed to preserve segregation in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education—unconstitutional. The Intelligent Investor revolutionized stock market strategy upon its publication in 1949, and it continues to influence and inspire investing behavior to this day. Warren Buffett, for example, followed Graham's model after reading the present work at age 19; in his preface to the revised edition, Buffet deemed the work "by far the best book on investing ever written." Presentation copies of Graham's works are rare. Rare Book Hub records only two presentation copies of Graham's other influential work, Security Analysis. Just one other signed copy of The Intelligent Investor has appeared at auction, and that copy—which sold at Sotheby's in 2022—bore only a dated signature. PROVENANCE Judge Charles Sterling Hutcheson (presentation inscription to front free endpaper; blindstamp to first two leaves)

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graham, benjamin | the intelligent investor, presentation copy

Thomas Prince, et al. A Sermon Delivered By Thomas Prince, M.A. on Wensday [sic], October 1, 1718. At His Ordination, to the Pastoral Charge of the South Church in Boston, N.E. in Conjunction with the Reverend Mr. Joseph Sewall. Together with The Charge by the Reverend Increase Mather, D.D. and a Copy of what was said at giving the Right Hand of Fellowship: By the Reverend Cotton Mather, D.D. To which is added, A Discourse of the Validity of Ordination by the Hands of Presbyters, Previous to Mr. Sewall's on September 16, 1773. By the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton, Pastor of the same Church. Boston: Printed by J. Franklin for S. Gerrish, and Sold at his Shop near the Old Meeting House, 1718 8vo (180 x 108 mm). Ornamental head- and tail-pieces and initials, separate section title for "Discourse," edges largely untrimmed; title browned, leaves lightly toned, a few stray spots and stains, top margin trimmed close and just shaved with loss to top rule, edges chipped and with some wear, repairs to margins of "Discourse." Modern three-quarter blue morocco over linen boards, spine gilt-lettered; boards bowed, a few small scuffs at extremities. First edition of one of the first books Benjamin Franklin had a hand in printing. At the time of this volume's publication, Benjamin Franklin was aged 12 and starting his multiyear term as an apprentice to his brother James, a Boston printer. In 1718, James Franklin issued only two imprints (with no priority known). While a 1946 Goodspeed catalogue boldly claimed that Benjamin himself set the type for the edition, there is consensus that this is either the first or second book that Benjamin was involved with producing. REFERENCES Evans 1996; Sabin 65613 PROVENANCE Freeman's, 10 September 2024, lot 11

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Greenaway, Kate (ill.) Five original watercolors for Little Ann and Other Poems, ca. 1880s Five original watercolors (from 70 x 93 mm to 162 x 250 mm). Each initialed; faintly toned, edges lightly browned and finger soiled, rubbed at corners beyond the matted frame, closed tear in the margin of one drawing, labeled in pencil on verso. All hinged to boards and neatly matted; a few stray stains to matting not affecting drawings, one mat split at joint. [with:] Greenaway, Kate (ill.) — Jane and Ann Taylor Little Ann and Other Poems. London: George Routledge and Sons, [n.d., 1882] 8vo (230 x 150 mm). Inscribed on front free endpaper, numerous in-text and full-page illustrations, all in color; some stains and smudges throughout, offsetting of illustrations, one small closed tear. Quarter green cloth over colored pictorial paper-covered boards, yellow endpapers, edges stained blue; covers worn, rubbed and chipped at extremities, upper hinge weak but holding. Housed together in a blue morocco-backed cloth slip case with two folding chemises. Five charming original watercolors for Little Ann, along with a first edition, first state presentation copy of the work from Greenaway to Agnes Haswell Shaw, wife of the famed British architect Richard Norman Shaw: "Mrs. Norman Shaw from Kate Greenaway November, 1883." The five illustrations resemble the versions printed on pages 12, 38, 39, 52, and 54 in the final work. Greenaway indeed maintained a personal relationship with the Shaws—in 1885, Richard Norman Shaw designed her home and studio in Frognal, Hampstead. She moved into the house with her parents and brother in February 1885, and she continued to live at the residence until her death. Greenaway, it appears, did not love the home, and nor did her friends. In a letter that March, she recalled that a friend had recently declared, "What a frightful falling off from the old one." She continued, adding her own opinion, "Isn't that sad?—but I fear true" (Spielmann p. 142–144). REFERENCES Schuster & Engen 109a; Spielmann, Kate Greenaway, 1905 PROVENANCE Agnes Haswell Shaw (presentation inscription to front free endpaper, dated November 1883) — Parke-Bernet, 23–24 November 1943, lot 250 — A. Light (ownership inscription to front free endpaper verso, dated '62)

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