English Literature, History, Children's Books and Illustrations

8vo, FIRST EDITION ("10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on publisher's imprint page), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ("In aid of the Cameron | Jarvis Library | With best wishes | Thomas Pynchon") on half-title, original green cloth lettered in silver on spine, DUST-JACKET, dust-jacket very slightly bumped at head of spine

vineland. boston: little, brown and company, 1990

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis De philosophia, prima pars, id est, Academicarum quaestionum editionis primae liber secundus, editionis secundae liber primus, De finis bonorum et malorum libri V. Tusculanarum quaestionum libri V. Cum scholiis, et coniecturis Pauli Manutii. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis De philosophia, prima pars, id est, Academicarum quaestionum editionis primae liber secundus, editionis secundae liber primus, De finis bonorum et malorum libri V. Tusculanarum quaestionum libri V. Cum scholiis, et coniecturis Pauli Manutii. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546 [And:] De philosophia volumen secundum, id est, De natura deorum libri III. De divinatione libri II. De fato liber I. De legibus libri III. De universitate liber I. Q. Ciceronis de petitione consulatus ad Marcum fratrem liber I. Cum scholiis, & coniecturis Pauli Manutii de locis aliquot obscurioribus. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546 The spine label indicates that these were bound as part of a multi-volume set of Cicero; for another volume from the set, see lot 160 (the 1547 edition of Asconius Pedanius's commentary on Cicero's speeches). 2 volumes, 8vo (158 x 100 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-v8 aa-oo8; A-Z8 AA-EE8: 272 + 224 leaves (g4 blank except for printed signature, oo7 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-pages and final versos (otherwise blank). (Occasional light foxing, title-pages a little soiled.) binding: Old vellum (166 x 105 mm), calf lettering-piece (chipped). (Joints creased.) provenance: Library of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, Ilchester (Maryland), and Mount St Alphonsus Redemptorist seminary library, Esopus (New York), library stamps and bookplate, sale, Freemans, Philadelphia, 4-5 April 2013, part of lot 481. acquisition: Poor Man's Books, Vineland, New Jersey, 2015. references: UCLA 354; Edit16 12270; Renouard 137/11-12

View 1 of Lot 337:  Cicero, De philosophia, Venice, Aldus, 1546, 2 volumes, later vellum

cicero, de philosophia, venice, aldus, 1546, 2 volumes, later vellum

Asconius Pedianus, Quintus. Asconii Pediani Expositio in IIII orationes M. Tullii Ciceronis contra C. Verrem, In orationem pro C. Cornelio, In orationem contra C. Antonium, et L. Catilinam, In orationem pro M. Scauro, In orationem contra L. Pisonem, In orationem pro Milone, Adhibita in locos prope innumerabiles correctione, cum scholiis Pauli Manutii, et indice nominum, verborum, & rerum memorabilium. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1547

Asconius Pedianus, Quintus. Asconii Pediani Expositio in IIII orationes M. Tullii Ciceronis contra C. Verrem, In orationem pro C. Cornelio, In orationem contra C. Antonium, et L. Catilinam, In orationem pro M. Scauro, In orationem contra L. Pisonem, In orationem pro Milone, Adhibita in locos prope innumerabiles correctione, cum scholiis Pauli Manutii, et indice nominum, verborum, & rerum memorabilium. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1547 The spine label indicates that this was bound as volume 11 of a set of Cicero; for other volumes from the set, see lot 337 (the 1546 edition of De philosophia). 8vo (158 x 97 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: *10 A-M8: 106 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. (Occasional light foxing.) binding: Old vellum (165 x 105 mm), calf lettering-piece (chipped). provenance: Library of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, Ilchester (Maryland), and Mount St Alphonsus Redemptorist seminary library, Esopus (New York), library stamps and bookplate, sale, Freemans, Philadelphia, 4-5 April 2013, lot 480. acquisition: Poor Man's Books, Vineland, New Jersey, 2015. references: UCLA 369; Edit16 3255; Renouard 140/3

View 1 of Lot 160:  Asconius Pedanius, Expositio in IIII orationes Ciceronis, Venice, Aldus, 1547, later vellum

asconius pedanius, expositio in iiii orationes ciceronis, venice, aldus, 1547, later vellum

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

Lot Comprises: R.A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston & George D. Painter, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1965, fol., publisher's red boards, dust jacket Henri Bordier & Emile Mabille, Prince of Forgers [translation of Une fabrique de faux autographes, ou, Récit de l'affaire Vrain Lucas (Paris 1870) by Joseph Rosenblum], New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 1998, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dust jacket Arthur Freeman, Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books & Manuscripts Relating to Literary Forgery, 400 BC-AD 2000, London, Quaritch, 2014, 4to., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket Earle Havens, ed., Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries: Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries, 2015, fol., publisher's printed colored paper wrappers Alfred Hiatt, The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth Century England, London, British Library, 2004, 4to., publisher's cloth, dust jacket John Blacker, d. 1896 Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of a remarkable collection of books in magnificent modern bindings, formed by an amateur (recently deceased), London, 11 November 1897 Otto Kurz, Fakes: A Handbook for Collectors & Students, London, Faber & Faber, 1948, 4to., publisher's olive‐green cloth, dust jacket Robin Myers & Michael Harris, ed., Fakes and frauds : varieties of deception in print & manuscript, Winchester & Detroit, St. Paul's Bibliographies / Omnigraphics, 1989, 8vo., publisher's printed boards Patricia Pierce, The Great Shakespeare Fraud: The Strange, True Story of William‐Henry Ireland, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 2004, 8vo., publisher's black cloth boards, dust jacket Christopher S. Wood, Forgery, replica, fiction : temporalities of German Renaissance art, Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 4to., publisher's grey cloth, dust jacket François de Callataÿ & Claude Sorgeloos, ed., Renier Chalon alias Fortsas: Un érudit malicieux au mitan du XIXe siècle (Monographies du Musée royal de Mariemont, 16), Musée royal de Mariemont, 2008, fol., publisher's printed paper wrappers William Voelkle & Roger S. Wieck, The Spanish Forger, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, fol., publisher's paper wrappers, ex‐libris and pressure stamp of Saint John's University Library The Spanish Forger: A Master of Deception, The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaulkee, Wisconsin, 10 December 1987 - 28 February 1988 Sold as a group, not subject to return

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rare books - fakes, forgeries

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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE MEDAL Nobel Peace Prize Medal Awarded in 1946 to YMCA Leader John R. Mott (1865-1955) for “His Creation of a Peace-Promoting Religious Brotherhood Across National Boundaries.” Nobel Prize Medal, struck in solid 23 carat gold, designed by Gustav Vigeland and manufactured by the Royal Norwegian Mint (Det Norske Myntverket) in Kongsberg, Norway. Obverse with bust of Alfred Nobel left, legend "ALFR• NOBEL • NAT • MDCCCXXXIII • OB • MDCCCXCVI", in field, right "MODEL • G • VIGELAND". Reverse with three standing male figures, arms united in brotherhood, legend "PRO • PACE • ET • FRATERNITATE • GENTIUM". Edge inscribed "PRIX • NOBEL • DE • LA • PAIX", and "JOHN R MOTT 1946". Weight, approx. 182 grams, 66 mm in diameter, housed in the original green morocco case. [With:] accompanying diploma (515 x 421 mm) on paper, Norweigan text partially engraved and completed in manuscript, engraved decorative border incorporating the lion of Norway with silver ax in hand, signed by the five representatives of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, Oslo, 10 December 1946. In 1946, in the aftermath of World War II, the Nobel Committee looked back over the previous 50 years for leaders who had devoted their entire lives to promoting peace in the world. The prize had not been awarded since 1939, and they selected John R. Mott, for his lifetime contributions to the creation of a peace-promoting religious brotherhood across national boundaries, along with pacifist leader Emily Greene Balch, for her lifelong work for disarmament and peace. Other nominees that year included President Herbert Hoover, l'Union des Associations pour la Société des Nations (The International Federation of League of Nations Societies), The Permanent International Peace Bureau, l'Union Belge pour la Société des Nations, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (founding president of the Paneuropean Union), and Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontay (Soviet revolutionary and diplomat) to name a few. One of the most influential Protestant figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mott was the long-serving leader of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), and worked to establish understanding and reconciliation among religions. He was a pioneer in the struggle against racial discrimination and for mutual respect and understanding among people of different faiths, a critic of the oppression of colonized peoples, and took part in both World Wars in relief work for prisoners of war. A founder of the Christian Ecumenical movement, he devoted his life to missionary activities and ecumenical work. His best-known book, The Evangelization of the World in this Generation became a missionary slogan during the first half of the 20th century. As general-secretary of the World Alliance of YMCAs, and creator of the forerunners of the World Council of Churches, Mott’s mission was “making it routine for people to work together” for international, interfaith, and interracial understanding and reconciliation. He concentrated heavily on developing young people as future leaders of their nations and of international collaboration. During World War I, he earned the trust of nations on both sides, frequently crossing borders to lead massive relief efforts for all prisoners of war as well as soldiers on the front-lines. He served as the General Secretary of the World Christian Student Federation from 1895 until 1920, and was elected lifelong honorary president of the World Council of Churches. Mott was also a counselor of international affairs during Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, serving on President Wilson’s peace commissions to Mexico (1916) and Russia (1917), and was awarded the American Distinguished Service medal for his diplomacy. His papers are held at the Yale Divinity School library, and he has been honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (October 3rd). He traveled around the world for his work, and crossed the Atlantic more than 100 times. In what some might consider an act of divine providence, when Mott and a colleague were offered free passage on the White Star Lines glamorous new ship The Titanic, Mott chose instead to book passage on the more humble SS Lapland. He was later quoted as saying "The Good Lord must have more work for us to do." The Nobel Prize is widely considered to be the most prestigious award conferred in the fields of Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, and Peace, with the most famous of these being the Peace prize. According to Alfred Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize was awarded to “…the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” It has only been awarded 99 times since the establishment of the prizes in 1895, compared to other categories such as Physics, which has been awarded 112 times thus far. Some of the best-known Peace Prize laureates include Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, the 14th Dalai Lama, Elie Weisel, and Malala Yousafzai. Only four other Nobel Peace Prizes have been offered at auction: Sir Randall Cremer, 1903 (Sotheby's London, 1985), Carlos Saavedra Lamas, 1936 (Stacks Bowers, 2014), Auguste Beernaert, 1909 (Christie's, 2015), and Alfonso Garcia Robles, 1982 (Christie's, 2017). REFERENCES Matthews, Basil. John R Mott, World Citizen. New York: Harpers Brothers, 1934; Hopkins, C. Howard. John R. Mott, 1865-1955: A Biography. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1980; Hopkins, Howard C. "The Legacy of John R. Mott" In: International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 1981, pp 70-73; Kurian, George Thomas and Mark Lamport (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States. Lanhmam, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016; Valloton, B. Un homme: John R. Mott. Paris, France: UCJG, 1951; Wallace Dickson, Joyce. "Marker Pays tribute to YMCA's Nobel Peace Prize winner." In: Orlando Sentinel, 1 October, 2017 PROVENANCE By descent from the recipient

nobel peace prize medal | nobel peace prize medal awarded in 1946 to ymca leader john r. mott (1865-1955) for “his creation of a peace-promoting religious brotherhood across national boundaries.”

Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

[KEULEN, JOHANNES AND GERARD VAN, AND OTHERS]

[KEULEN, JOHANNES AND GERARD VAN, AND OTHERS] [Composite atlas. Amsterdam, eighteenth-century] Folio, (520 x 300mm.), 89 engraved charts and views, mostly double-page or folding, one folding engraved plate of flags, most with Dutch text only, a few also with English and French text, with dates from 1716 to 1786, late eighteenth-century red half roan, marbled boards, without text, largely shaved to neatline or more, occasional tears or slight marginal wear, browning at places, one map with repair to verso, light wear to spine A GOOD COLLECTION OF SEA CHARTS AND COASTAL VIEWS. 1.Schouw-park aller Scheeps-vlaggen des geheelen Water-Waerelds. 2.Nieuwe Wassende Graaden Paskaart Vertoonende alle de bekende Zeekusten en Landen op den geheelen Aard boodem of Werelt. 3.Paskaart Van een Gedeelte der Noort Zee Beginnende van de Maas tot Dronte en van Herwits tot C.Wrath. 4.Nieuwe Platte Kaart van de Noort Zee Strekkende van Frederikstad tot de Eylande Ornaal, van Schagens Hoek langs de Westkuste van Jutland, Holland, & Zeeland tot Middelburg. 1779. 5.Paskaarte van de Zuyder Zee, met alle des Zelfs inkomen Gaaten Ao.1771. 6.Nieuwe Pas-Kaart van Texel en den Horst. 7.Nieuwe aart van het Inkoomen in het Vlie door de Zeegaten de Hollepoort, het Russische Gat, en Stortemelk, tot op de ordinaire Rheede. 1786. 8.Nieuwe Pascaert Waar in te sien is de gatten van Texel en 't Vlie. 9.Riviere de Elve tot Hamborg. (Johannes Loots, et al.). 10.Paskaart van een gedeelte van Vriesland, Groeninger, en Emderland. 11.Paskaart van de Lade, Weser en Elve. 12.Nieuwe en seer Accuraate Paskaart, van het Heyligland, na de Elve en Weeser. 13.Nieuwe Paskaart Strekkende van Baltrum & 't Heiligeland, tot Tonderen & 't Grauwe Diep. 1779. 14.Kaarte van het Eyland Zilt. 15.Nieuwe Pascaert van Jutlandt. 16.Paskaert Voor een gedeelte van de Cust van Noorwegen Beginnende van Oxefoort tot aen Gottenborg. 1716. 17.Nieuwe Groote en Curieuse Paskaart van het Zoen Water, met zal zyn Droogtens, Dieptens, en omleggende Landen en Steden, in Noorwegen. 18.De Kust van Noorweegen of 't Land van Noord Oosten; van de Langesond tot Gottenborg. 19.Het Inkoomen en Reeden van Gottenborg. 20.Nieuwe en zeer Naauwkeurige Zee-kaart van 't Schager-rak of Kattegat. 1777. 21.[Oostzee]; 8 maps on 1 leaf. 22.NieuwePascaart van deSond ende Beldt Met de onder Behoorende Eylanden. 23.Nieuwe Miswysende Zee-Kaart van de Sond. 24.Nieuwe Afteekening van de Sond int Groot. 25.Nieuwe Afteekening van de Haven en Stad Wismar. 26.[De Oost Zee of Oster Sioon]. 27.Nieuwe en zeer Accuraate Zeecaart van de geheele Oost-Zee. 28.Nieuwe Paskaart voor een Gedeelte van de Oost-zee. 29.Nieuwe Paskaart voor een Gedeelte van de Oost-zee. 30.[Ysted]. 31.Groot besteck van Karelskroon en Karelshaven. De Reede voor Danzik int groot besteck. 32.Nieuwe Afteekening van het Eyland Rugen en de Straal Sond. 33.[De Kunst van Pomeren]. 34.Paskaart Voor een Gedeelte van de Oost Zee Beginnende van Valsterbon tot Schenkkenes. 35.Paskaart Voor een Gedeelte der Oost Zee Beginnende van Schenkkenes, tot aan Stokholm. 36.Nieuwe Paskaert van het Stockholmse Liet. 1717 37.Nieuwe Paskaart Van de Noord-Bodem. 38.Paskaart Voor een Gedeelte van de Oost Zee Beginnende van Sernevisse, tot aan Parnout. 39.Paskaart Voor een Gedeelte der Oost Zee Beginnende van Lemsaal tot Beooste Kok als mede de Kust van Oost Finlandt. 40.[De Kust van Zweeds Finland. De Kust van Esthland]. 41.[De Kust van Russisch Finland]. 42.Nieuwe Afteekening van de Vaarweg Van t Hooge Land tot Weekelax. 43.Nieuwe Paskaert Voor een Gedeelte Van de Oost Zee Beginnende 2 Myl bewesten Broklom tot aen Strellen, als mede de Kust van Oost Vinlandt. 44.Nieuwe Zee-Kaart van het Noorder Gedeelte van Europa 45.Nieuwe wassende Zee Caart van de Noord-Oceaen, met een gedeelte van de Atlantische. 1745. 46.Pas-kaert van de Cust Van Noorwegen Beginnende van Den Nues tot den Bommel Sond. 47.Nieuwe Paskaart van de Kust Van Noorwegen Beginnende van Bommelsondt tot aan de Wtweer Klippen. 48.Paskaart van de Kust Van Noorwegen Beginnende van de Wtweer Klippen tot aan Swartenos. 49.Paskaart van de Kust Van Noorwegen Beginnende van Swarten Os tot aan Heyligerlander Leen. 50.Paskaart Van de Kust van Finmarken Van Heyligerlander Leen tot C. Tromsondt. 51.Paskaart van 't Noordelykste van de Kust van Finmarkken Alsmede een Gedeelte van Lapland. 52.Nieuwe en See Accurate Caart van de Rivier van Kola. 53.Paskaart van de Mond van de Witte Zee. 54.Nieuwe Kaart Strekkende van het Kruis Eiland en Catsnoes tot de Rivier van Archangel en Onega. 1786. 55.Paskaart van de Witte Zee Beginnende van Pelitza tot Kandalox en van Catsnoes tot aan Kovoda. 56.Pasklaart van de Rivier de Dwina of Archangel. 57.Paskaart Van de Noord Kust van Moscovien. 58.Nieuwe en seer Accurate Paskaart van het Eyland Yslandt In het Groot 59.Nieuwe afteekening van Het Eyland Spits-Bergen 60.Nieuwe Afteekening van de Eylanden van Fero. 61.Nieuwe Caart van de Eylanden van Hitland. 62.Nieuwe Generaale Caart van de Orcades. 63.Het Noord ooster Deel van de Orcadische Eylanden. 64.Het Noord wester Deel van de Orcadische Eylanden. 65.Het grootste en middelste Eyland van de Orcadische Eylanden, genaamt Pomonia of Mainland. 66.Het Zuydergedeelte van de Orcadische Eylanden. 67.Pas Caart van de Noord hoek van het Noordelykste van de Lewys Eylanden. 68.The Lewis of het Noorder Deel van Long Island, zynde het Noordelykste van de Western of Lewys Eylanden. 69.[Het inkomen van Stronawa]. 70.De Havens van Valey-Sund en Grueting-Voe. (2 maps on 1 leaf). 71.Kaart van de Buishaven van Hitland. 72.Vertoningen der Noord Kusten van de Orcades. (Coastal profiles on 1 leaf) 73.Gezigten van Hitland. (Coastal profiles on 1 leaf). 74.Gezigt der West-Kunst van Hitland. (Coastal profiles on 1 leaf). 75.Vertoningen der West-kusten van de Orcades. (Coastal profiles on 1 leaf). 76.Landkenningen aen de Zuyd West syde van Ysland. (Coastal profiles and maps on 1 leaf). 77.Nieuwe opdoeningen der Lande in de Straat Davids. (Coastal profiles on 1 leaf). 78.Gedaantens der Landen soo als die hun uyt der zee Vertoonen geleegen inde Noord Zee. (Coastal profiles on 1 leaf). 79.Gedaantens der Landen soo als die hun uijt der Zee Vertoonen, geleegen aan de Kust van Finmarken tussen 't I.Traanoog en 't I.Loppen. (Coastal profiles on 1 leaf). 80.Nieuwe Paskaert Van de oost Custe van Engeland en Schotland Beginnende van 't Flamburger Hooft tot aan de Rivier van Eedneborg. 81.Paskaart vande Noord Cust van Schotland als mede de Eylanden van Hitlandt en Fero. 82.Nieuwe Pascaert van de Oost Cust van Schotlandt Beginnende van Barwyck tot aen de Orcades Ylanden. 83.Nieuwe en seer Perfect Paskaart van Schotlandt. 84.[De Rivier van Edenburgh. Afteekening van Nieuw en Oud Aberdeene aand de Oostkust van Schotland]. (2 maps on 1 leaf). 85.Pas-Caert Van de Zee-custen van Engeland van Orfordnes tot aen Flamborger Hooft. 86.Nieuwe Wassende Gradige Pas-kaart van een Gedeelte der Oostkust van Engeland; Strekkende van Eckles tot Flambrouger Hooft. 87.De Rivier Tyne of New Castle Geleegen Aan de Oost Kust van Engeland of Schotland in de Noord Zee. 88.Afteekening van de Noord Oost hoek van Schotland Vertoonende The Firth of Murray. 89.Nieuwe Afteekening Van Holy Eyland, de Staples, Coket Eyland en Barwyk met de Vaste kust van Noordhumberland aan de Oostkust van Schotland. 90.De Reede van Harwich, Handford-Water en Wood Bridge Haaven met alle de Banken. LITERATURE: cf. Keulen 45, 50-52

keulen. [composite atlas], 18th century. a good collection of sea charts and coastal views

comprising correspondence with: sylvia townsend warner, 26 autograph letters signed, discussing Proust - both her translations and his biography ("...I most passionately agree with your statement ... about A la Recherche being a transcendental autobiography..."), the Viscomte de Chateaubriand, including an account of a dream about him and his sister Lucille ("...They were walking slowly along a rough track beside a neglected road, he was talking with animation, she was leaning on his arm listening with animation. She was wearing pink satin slippers, frayed and faded. I saw them pause, and look to their right and I knew from the cold northern light that fell on their faces that they were looking towards England..."), her work on the biography of T.H. White, the death of Valentine Ackland ("...I thought after Valentine's death I would never write again. But the current was too strong for me..."), and a wide range of literary and other subjects ("...such a variety of delights - What didn't we talk about? - and ended with mermaids and mandrakes..."), with some related material, 4to and 8vo, about 55 pages, Maiden Newton, Dorchester, and other locations, 10 February 1957-21 October 1977 enid bagnold, 13 autograph and typed letters signed, on her play "The Last Joke", for the failure of which she blames rewrites demanded by John Gielgud ("... He is such a marvellous actor and such a nice man. But of judgment he has none..."), Painter's biography of Proust, her first meeting with Antoine Bibesco and her relationship with him and his circle ("... The Proustian flavour hung very much about them and I can evoke it still. The jokes, the implications, the allusory cruelties, the pride, the secrecy, the half-admitted but hidden philosophy, the denial of a right to share, the masked faces (a metaphor), the masked souls, the enormous appetite for human relationship.. I could make lists for ever!..."), 34 pages, chiefly 8vo, Rottingdean and other locations, 24 September 1959 to 28 November 1971 marthe bibesco, 23 autograph and typed letters signed, thanking him in grand style for a copy of his biography of Proust ("...consider this letter like a first 'installment' only. My debt is of such magnitude that I cannot afford to pay it in a single stroke...") and with fulsome praise of his work, discussing Chateaubriand and also her literary work,  offering to sell autograph letters by both Chateaubriand and Proust, asking about the British Museum ("....What about the Elgin mables?..."), with many comments about the English and Englishness, together with related correspondence and copies of some letters by Painter, 74 pages, 4to and 8vo, London, Paris, and other locations, 20 February 1953-12 August 1971 dorothy bussy, 25 autograph letters and postcards signed, discussing André Gide, his life, work, and reputation ("...I really know Gide too intimately to be thoroughly satisfied with any book about him..."), the nature of translation ("...the only persons who are really capable of appreciating [the translator's] efforts, his successes, his failures, are those who are most unlikely to read him..."), criticising Painter's translations and biographical work including a warning against writing about Proust ("...It seems to me that Proust himself has said everything about himself in the best possible and the most exhaustive way in his own words...") and other literary subjects, with several references to the publisher Roger Senhouse, with a carbon copy typed letter by Painter to Bussy, 51 pages, chiefly 8vo, 51 Gordon Square, London, and other locations, 1 October 1948-13 December 1953, soiling joe ackerley, 10 autograph and typed letters signed, discussing his review work for The Listener ("...it is high time we had a few witticisms...") and other literary subjects, also with one typed letter signed by graham greene about a novel by Frank Tilsley with a subscription by Ackerley, with related material, 27 pages, chiefly 8vo, 19 January 1948-11 June 1951 philippe jullian, 5 pen and ink sketches, signed, apparently drafts for his illustrations to Painter's translation of A. Maurois, The Chelsea Way, together with 4 letters, 1965-69 Further correspondence, including: 6 autograph and typed letters by Violet Schiff, 4 letters and cards by Peter Quennell, 3 autograph and typed letters signed by Raymond Mortimer, 4 typed letters signed by Valerie Eliot, 2 letters by Alyse Gregory, and an autograph letter by Harold Pinter; a quantity of letters praising his proust biography and with thoughts on proust, including from: Nancy Mitford, 1 autograph letter and one card signed (about Proust and Voltaire), Diana Mosley, 2 autograph letters signed, Anthony Powell, autograph letter and typed letter signed, Osbert Sitwell, typed letter signed, J.C. Powys, 2 autograph letters signed; mostly 1959-65; also an autograph letter signed by francoise rene de chateaubriand, 1 page, 8vo, with autograph address panel and wax seal impression, 20 September; some soiling and a few letters torn Professional correspondence relating to the British Museum, including by: t.s. eliot, 4 typed letters signed, about copies of The Egoist at the British Museum, 1952-5; Harriet Weaver, 5 letters relating to the presentation of the manuscript of finnegans wake to the BM rather than the National Library of Ireland ("...I think I told you it was on account of Mrs Joyce's and her son's hostility to everything Irish..."); and a small quantity of correspondence relating to incunables, including by Harry Carter ("...Incunabulists must think that Lombardic initials grow on bushes...") The above in 9 labelled folders and envelopes, together with 31 further folders and envelopes containing: correspondence with scholars mostly working on various Proustian and biographical projects, correspondence with publishers, cuttings of reviews by Painter, reviews of works by Painter, typescripts of Painter's poetry, typescripts of radio work by Painter, typescripts of reviews and other works, notes on the Vinland Map, papers relating to Sylvia Townsend Warner including correspondence with William Maxwell, and other papers, notes, and ephemera

the archive of the biographer of proust and british museum incunabulist

[Asher, G.M. A Bibliographical and Historical Essay on the Dutch Books and Pamphlets relating to New-Netherland, and to the Dutch West-India Company. Amsterdam, 1854–1867], 2 copies, neither with title-page (one with Prospectus leaf instead), one containing in addition A List of the Maps and Charts of New-Netherland, and of views of New Amsterdam by G.M. Asher... 1855–Smith, A. Virginia 1584–1607. 1957–Ganong, W.F. Crucial Maps in the early cartography... of the Atlantic Coast of Canada. 1964–Skelton, R.A. and others. The Vinland Map. 1966–Guthorn, P.J. American Maps and Map Makers of the Revolution. 1966–Kebabian, J.S. The Henry C. Taylor Collection. 1971–Cumming, W.P. and others. The Discovery of North America. 1971–Cumming, W.P. British Maps of Colonial America. 1974–British Library. The American War of Independence 1775–83, a commemorative exhibition. 1975–Shirley, R.W. The Mapping of the World. [1984] and 1993, 2 copies–Vietor, A.O. America emergent. 1985–Tooley, R.V. The Mapping of America. 1988–Boucher, P.P. Les Nouvelles Frances, France in America, 1500-1815. 1989–Goss, J. The Mapping of North America. 1990–Delgado-Gomez, A. Spanish Historical Writing about the New World 1493-1700. 1992–John Carter Brown Library. Scotland and the Americas 1600 to 1800. 1995–Burden, P.D. The Mapping of North America, limited edition of 100 copies, inscribed by the author 'with many thanks' and bound in half morocco. 1996–Klooster, W. The Dutch in the Americas 1600-1800. 1997; and 6 others (26)

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Gold Nobel Prize Medal for Physiology or Medicine, awarded to Frederick C. Robbins, 1954, bust of Alfred Nobel left, in field left, ALFR• / NOBEL (in two lines); behind head to right, NAT• /MDCCC / XXXIII / OB• / MDCCC / XCVI (in six lines); at left edge, before bust, E •  LINDBERG 1902, rev., INVENTAS •  VITAM •  IUVAT • EXCOLUISSE •  PER •  ARTES (life is enhanced through the arts of discovery) — REG •  UNIVERSITAS — MED • - CHIR •  CAROL •  (The Royal Karolinska Institute for Medicine and Surgery); below, incuse, on tablet in exergue, F •  C •  ROBBINS / MCMLIV , Hygeia (as personification of medicine), laureate, seated left, her right arm holding a patera into which water flows from a crevasse in a rock, an open book in her lap, her left arm supporting a standing figure of a stricken girl; to the right a serpent drinks from the bowl of Hygeia; in field right, E •  LINDBERG; the edge marked MJV (Mynt ochs Justeringsverket [Royal Mint and Assay]) GULD 1954; weight: 182.57 g.; diameter: 66 mm (2 5/8 in.). Virtually as struck; housed in the original red morocco case of issue, the top of the case with a border of a double gilt rule and gilt dot-fillet, corner tools, and the recipient's name (frederick c. robbins) in the center; the fitted interior lined with suede and satin (a bit discolored), the interior case edges with gilt dentelles; extremities of case a bit rubbed.  

Gold Nobel Prize Medal for Physiology or Medicine, awarded to Frederick C. Robbins, 1954, bust of Alfred Nobel left, in field left, ALFR• / NOBEL (in two lines); behind head to right, NAT• /MDCCC / XXXIII / OB• / MDCCC / XCVI (in six lines); at left edge, before bust, E •  LINDBERG 1902, rev., INVENTAS •  VITAM •  IUVAT • EXCOLUISSE •  PER •  ARTES (life is enhanced through the arts of discovery) — REG •  UNIVERSITAS — MED • - CHIR •  CAROL •  (The Royal Karolinska Institute for Medicine and Surgery); below, incuse, on tablet in exergue, F •  C •  ROBBINS / MCMLIV , Hygeia (as personification of medicine), laureate, seated left, her right arm holding a patera into which water flows from a crevasse in a rock, an open book in her lap, her left arm supporting a standing figure of a stricken girl; to the right a serpent drinks from the bowl of Hygeia; in field right, E •  LINDBERG; the edge marked MJV (Mynt ochs Justeringsverket [Royal Mint and Assay]) GULD 1954; weight: 182.57 g.; diameter: 66 mm (2 5/8 in.). Virtually as struck; housed in the original red morocco case of issue, the top of the case with a border of a double gilt rule and gilt dot-fillet, corner tools, and the recipient's name (frederick c. robbins) in the center; the fitted interior lined with suede and satin (a bit discolored), the interior case edges with gilt dentelles; extremities of case a bit rubbed.   nb: The commissions to execute the Nobel Prize medals were won by two young Scandinavian artists: the “Swedish medals”—Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, and Literature—were entrusted to a twenty-nine-year-old medallist and sculptor, Erik Lindberg from Stockholm, and the “Norwegian medal”—for Peace—to the Oslo-based sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1867–1943). Lindberg (1873–1966) was the son of Adolf Lindberg, a prominent medallist, chief engraver of the Royal Swedish mint, and professor of drawing at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Stockholm. The younger Lindberg’s career in many ways echoed his father’s. Having studied in Paris where he was influenced by a number of contemporary French masters, most notably Jules-Clément Chaplain, he became a renowned medallist who, in addition to the Nobel medals, designed medals for the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm as well as a wealth of other commissions. On his father’s retirement he became the Chief Engraver of the Royal Swedish Mint (1916–1944) and was for decades the Secretary of the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. Although better known as a medallist than sculptor, a bronze bust of Alfred Nobel by Lindberg was acquired by the National Gallery of Sweden from an auction by Thomas Del Mar in association with Sotheby’s in 2009. Lindberg was working in Paris when he received the Nobel commission in early 1901. Each of the designs for the reverse imagery had to be accepted by the respective institutions responsible for awarding the Prizes and the process of approval by correspondence was slow and at times contentious. Ultimately, Lindberg traveled to Stockholm to personally discuss his concepts. Upon agreement, he prepared plaster models which were reduced in Paris (Lindberg also prepared the dies for the Peace Medal from Gustav Vigeland’s designs). Lindberg’s obverse with the portrait of Nobel, adapted from an anonymous and undated photograph (http://www.nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/biographical/), was completed before the first presentations of the Prize in 1901. However, the reverses were not yet finished and the initial recipients received base metal examples of the obverse which were replaced by the finished medals in September 1902. Lindberg’s medals were well received, one critic noting that the artist “has shown in the execution of [the medals] a very rare ability, not only in regard to composition and artistic workmanship, but also in the delicacy of expression and feeling of form in his handling of the subjects. His likeness of the donator is excellent” (The Studio, XXVIII, pp. 143–145). The critical reaction to Vigeland’s work was less enthusiastic. Erik Lindberg’s likeness of Alfred Nobel is probably one of the best-known medallic portraits ever created and has become internationally recognized as an icon representing extraordinary achievement. accompanied by: Frederick C. Robbins' Nobel Prize Diploma: 2 vellum leaves (each 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.; 343 x 243 mm) laid down in a crushed blue morocco binding, the right-hand leaf with calligraphic inscription in Swedish signed by members of the Nobel Foundation and the Karolinska Institute; the left-hand leaf with calligraphic inscription in Swedish below an allegorical scene in ink, gouache, and gilt by Berta Svensson-Piehl depicting a warrior slaying Polio in the guise of a gigantic serpent; the binding with beveled boards, the covers with a border of six gilt fillets, the front cover with central gilt laurel wreath enclosing Robbins' initials, the rear cover with a central gilt Rod of Asclepius, binding signed on lower rear cover by G. Hedberg and K. Hovboke, Stockholm. Protective blue cloth clamshell case. also accompanied by: Robbins' copy of the 1954 Nobel Prize yearbook, Les Prix Nobel en 1954 (Stockholm: Imprimerie Royale, 1955); an offprint from that publication of the Nobel Lecture by John F. Enders, Robbins, and Thomas H. Weller, "The Cultivation of the Poliomyelitis Viruses in Tissue Culture"; 6 other offprints by or about Robbins, one inscribed and signed by him with initials; and an autograph letter signed by Robbins ("Fred"), 2 pages, [Boston, 3 June 1948,] to his fiancée, Alice Northrop, announcing an important development in his research.

frederick c. robbins' gold medal for the nobel prize in physiology or medicine, awarded in 1954, with the accompanying calligraphic diploma and related materials

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