Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Selections from the Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman Grolier One Hundred: Non-Fiction A group of 11 titles Lot includes: Bartlett, John. A Collection of Familiar Quotations, with complete indices of authors and subjects. Cambridge: John Bartlett, 1855. 12mo.; toned, stain to rear pastedown. Blue publisher's cloth, spine gilt; rebacked, soiled. Housed in a custom clamshell. First edition, first printing; Grolier 100-64. — Cushing, Luther Stearns. Manual of Parliamentary Practice. Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies. Boston: William Reynolds, 1845. 16mo., early ownership signatures; staining. Contemporary sheep; rebacked, rubbed. In a custom slipcase. Fourth edition; Grolier 100-53. — Eddy, Mary Baker. Science and Health. Boston: Christian Science Publishing Company, 1875. 8vo.; title partially separated at spine. Black publisher's cloth, spine gilt; rebacked. In a custom slipcase. First edition. Grolier 100-78. — Gray, Asa. Elements of Botany. New York: G. & C. Carvill & Co., 1836. 8vo. Illustrations in text; spotting. Publisher's patterned plum cloth; rebacked, faded. In a custom slipcase. First edition. Grolier 100-41. — Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1858. 8vo. engraved frontis., title in black and red; early ownership signature. Publisher's brown pattered cloth; rubbed, chips to spine. In a custom clamshell. First edition. Grolier 100-69. — Holt, Luther Emmett. The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1901. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth, gilt; lightly rubbed. In a custom slipcase. Second edition, Grolier 100-97. — Howard, Benjamin C. Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott vs John F. A. Sandford. Washington: Cornelius Wendell, 1857. 8vo.; light spotting and soiling to title, some pages toned. Printed wrappers; frayed and reinforced at edges, early ownership signature to back cover. In a custom clamshell. First edition. Grolier 100-68. — Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1890. 8vo. 25 diagrams and maps (one folding). Half blue morocco, gilt, top edge gilt; back cover slightly discolored, extremities a bit rubbed. Grolier 100-93. — Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Mexico with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1843. 3 vols., 8vo. Frontispieces, two folding maps; some spotting. Publisher's dark green clot, gilt; minor shelfwear, spines lightly sunned, slightly cocked. First American edition. Grolier 100-51. — Rowlandson, Mary. Narrative of the Captivity and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Who Was Taken by the Indians at the Destruction of Lancaster in 1676. Written by herself. Lancaster, [Massachusetts]: Carter, Andrews, and co., 1828. 100 pp.; small repair to title. Later quarter brown morocco over marbled boards. The scarce sixth edition, second Lancaster edition. Grolier 100-5. — Thomas, Isaiah. The History of Printing in America. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1810. 2 vols., 8vo. Frontispiece; toned, scattered dampstaining, vol. 1 flyleaf torn. Full sheep, marbled edges and endpapers; joints cracked with a few repairs, scuffed. In custom slipcases. First edition; Grolier 100-29. Sold as a group lot, not subject to return.

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English Literature, History, Science, Childrens Books and Illustrations

including autograph letters signed by: Henry Hallam (4, to Francis Horner, on books for review in the Quarterly Review, the Peninsular War, and events in France following the abdication of Napoleon, 15 pages, 4to, 1805-15), Leopold von Ranke, William H. Prescott (6), Lord Macaulay, George Grote (3), Thomas Carlyle (4), George Bancroft (2, on happiness in town and country life "does happiness depend on the state of mind; the quiet being able to draw happiness from all that nature places round him & the disquiet finding care chasing him through hill & valley", 1827 and n.d.), William Lecky, George Ticknor (2, on American politics, 1848), Walter Scott (2), Charles Dickens (2, to Leonard Horner, one regretting that he "is not aware of having it in his power to assist Mr Horner in his great object" inspecting factories for their use of  child labour, 4 pages, 1841-43), W.M. Thackeray (3), Matthew Gregory Lewis (to Francis Horner, showing that he was right in a disagreement over the key to Absalom and Achitophel, "as it probably never will happen again when I differ from you, I could not deny myself the satisfaction of telling you", 1 page, "Monday"), Goethe (Document signed, Weimar, 3 August 1824), Schiller (to Siegfried Crusius, [Weimar, 7 February 1788]), August Wilhelm von Schlegel (2 autograph letters in French, signed), H.C. Andersen (about hearing Jenny Lind, who had given him a ticket to hear her sing [in the first production of Verdi's I masnadieri, which was written for her], 2 pages, London, 27 July 1847), Thomas Moore (to Francis Horner, on his disappointment "not to see the explanation in the Morning Post", relating to Moore's notorious duel with Francis Jeffrey, 1 page, postmarked 13 August 1806), Thomas Campbell (3, and 3 autograph poems, "I pledge to the much-loved land that gave us birth", 40 lines, 3 pages, 4to, postmarked 1809; 'Song on the Battle of Copenhagen, beginning "Of Nelson & the North", working manuscript with scattered autograph revisions, 6 pages, 8vo; 'The Turkish Lady a Ballad', beginning "'Twas an Emir's lovely daughter", 14 pages, 16mo), Samuel Rogers (6, 1840s), Richard Monckton Milnes (2), H. W. Longfellow (autograph quotation beginning "The very tones in which we spake"), Robert Browning (3, 1862-63), Ernst M. Arndt, Alfred de Vigny (3, 1848-1862), Tennyson (autograph manuscript poem, extract from 'The Princess', 16 lines beginning "Home they brought her warrior dead", signed, 1 page, 8vo), G. Giusti, Trollope (2); most items edge-mounted on the rectos of an album with photographic or print portraits on the facing versos, 58 numbered leaves, half black morocco on brown roan, upper cover labelled "B History Literature Poets", inside cover labelled "Leonard Lyell"; the album housed in a waxed linen bag; rubbed, some album leaves loose

collection of c.111 letters and manuscripts by dickens, schiller, h.c. andersen, and other historians, poets, and writers

calligraphy by-laws for the prescott guards, company 6, 38th regiment, state of new york,

a first and a second prescott guards canteen, pepperell, massachusetts, circa 1810 and 182

China in print and on paper, including the Library of Bernard Hanotiau and the Floyd Sully Collection

Thomson, John. Through China with a Camera. Westminster, 1898, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, illustrated with 75 photographic plates, original cloth, gilt decoration on upper cover [W.H. Smith & Sons Subscription Library, book label], scattered spotting, hinge cracked at pp.80/81, light wear to binding

Thomson, John. Through China with a Camera. Westminster, 1898, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, illustrated with 75 photographic plates, original cloth, gilt decoration on upper cover [W.H. Smith & Sons Subscription Library, book label], scattered spotting, hinge cracked at pp.80/81, light wear to bindingHosie, Alexander. Three Years in Western China. London, 1890, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, 8 plates of photographic illustrations and facsimiles of native drawings, folding map, original blue decorated boards, light browning, hinge cracked pp.240/241 minor wear to spine endsThomson, J. The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China. New York, 1875. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 8vo, 25 full-page engravings, 4 maps, original green cloth decorated in gilt and blind [John L. Garner, book label], binding leaning and with light wearCunynghame, Arthur. China and the Chinese: being an aide-de-camp's recollections of service in China. London: Bentley, [?1844], 8vo, extra-illustrated with four coloured plates, contemporary pictorial red cloth gilt, scattered spotting, rear joint splitting, light wearand 28 others, mostly 8vo (32) Taylor, J. Hudson, editor. China’s Millions. London, 1877,  1879, 1885, 1889, 4 volumes, 4to, original green or maroon cloth, decorated in black and gilt [H.L Hudson, signature; John Knox’s Sunday School, stamp; Prescott (Pete) Clarke (1935-1980), book label], minor browning, a few hinges cracked, wear to bindingsMrs. Gray. Fourteen Months in Canton. 1880Dukes, Edwin Joshua. Everyday Life in China. No date.Withrow, W.H., ed. China and its People. 1894. Lay, G. Tradescant. The Chinese as they are. 1841. Sienna Convent, Drogheda.Douglas, Robert K. China. 1887Windt, H. de. From Pekin to Calais. 1892. Joseph A. Sadony, blindstampMurray, Hugh, et alia. An Historical and Descriptive Account of China… Third Edition. No date. 3 volumes. Sienna Convent, Drogheda, book label.Baber, E. Colborne. Travels and Researches in the Interior of China. No dateReid, Arnot. From Peking to Petersburg. 1899. Peter Hopkirk, book labelAlcock, Rutherford. The Journey of Augustus Raymond Margary. 1876.The People of China. No date (Religious Tract Society). May S. MillerWilliamson, Isabelle. Old Highways in China. No dateFoster, Mrs. Arnold. In the Valley of the Yangtse. 1899Henry, B.C. Ling-Nam or Interior Views on Southern China. 1886Reynaud, Right Reverend Monseigneur, (M.T. Kelly, ed). Another China. 1897. Medhust, W.H. The Foreigner in Far Cathay. 1873Williams, Mrs. H. Dwight. A Year in China. 1864Cumming, C.F. Gordon. Wanderings in China. 1888Gill, William. The River of Golden Sand. 1883Wilson, James Harrison. China. 1887Moule, Ven. Arthur E. New China and Old. 1891Oliphant, Laurence. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan. 1860

a collection of 32 travel books in english, including:

A fine group of 36 printed and manuscript documents from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and London, 1774 - 1795

A fine group of 36 printed and manuscript documents from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and London, 1774 - 1795 Massachusetts-Bay (Colony). Account of payments due to William Palfrey for writings done for the General Court. [Boston], March 1774. Manuscript document, 1 p., 8vo; formerly folded, lower third detached and partly gone, not affecting the account. [Itemized account for writing such pieces as the Governor’s Speech, letters for the Committee of Correspondence, impeachments of Judge Oliver, etc.]. — State of Connecticut, Pay-Table Office. Order to pay Titus Mead. [Hartford], 18 May 1782. Printed document with manuscript accomplishment, small 4to; hole punched in center to signify cancellation. — John Winslow, Assistant Paymaster. Account of monies Paid Col. James Livingston, 21 September 1775 – 7 February 1776. Manuscript document, ¼ folio sheet. [On 18 October 1775, Colonel Livingston (1747-1832) led a force of 50 Americans and 300 Canadians in a successful attack on the fort at Chambly Quebec.] — Worthington, Massachusetts. “We the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Worthington do hereby Covenant [to pay for the support of the Reverend Mr. Huntington]. Worthington, Massachusetts, 14 December 1780. Manuscript document, 8vo, signed by 18 citizens with the amounts paid; some spots and soiling, tear at fold. — Hartford Connecticut, Pay-Table Committee. 2 accounts for clothing and repairs of clothing supplied by Gideon King for the Continental Army. Middletown, 11 June 1781 and Hartford, 12 June 1781. 2 manuscript documents, small 4to. — [State of Connecticut, Pay-Table Office]. 3 Receipts issued to the town of Tolland Connecticut for supplies of clothing and shoes for the Continental Army. Hartford, 27 March, 14 April and 19 October 1779. 3 manuscript documents, signed, various sizes. — William Barton, Inspector of Revenue. Certification of Tea import by Brown and Francis. Port of Providence, Rhode Island; 8 July 1795. Printed document with manuscript accomplishment, signed, ¼ folio sheet. [An unusual printed form specifically for the import of Cantonese tea into Providence. The inspector is the noted Revolutionary War hero most remembered for his covert capture of Brig. Gen. Prescott in Newport.] — 13th Regiment of Infantry. Invoice, signed by Fanning Tracy, Quartermaster, for clothing and notions supplied. Union Cantonment [New Jersey?], 20 June 1800. Manuscript document, folio, 1 p., docketing on verso; a few holes. — [Renewal of Commerce with Europe]. 3 printed letters, signed by merchants of London, Nantes and Amsterdam, requesting a renewal of trade after the Revolutionary War. Two of these addressed to Silvanus Hussey, of Lynn Massachusetts. 1781, 1782, 1783. 4to. — State of Connecticut, Pay-Table Office. Two checks issued to Samuel H. Parson. Hartford, 7 November 1787. Printed documents with manuscript accomplishment, 4 ¾ x 6 in., plus 2 similar. — Connecticut Line Regiments. Refreshment List and account. [1780-1782?]. Manuscript document, oblong folio. — Archible McKendry of Stoughton Massachusetts. Orders to report for march to Rhode Island, plus receipt to him from a substitute Jephthah Crane, acting for him on that march. [Stoughton, Massachusetts?], 16-18 April 1777. 2 manuscript documents, various sizes. — 12 Bills of Lading, signed by English shippers, 1778-1779, to South Carolina. London: Shepton & Brown, [1778]. Printed documents with manuscript accomplishment, each 4 ¾ x 9 ¼ in. — plus 3 others, similar.

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