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A Profitable Adventure to the Fortunate
Literature & Letters & Early Printing 1 – 101; 154 – 156;
Fine Arts 102 – 121;
Science, Mathematics, & Medicine 122 – 153.
References Cited & Index of Authors & Subjects
1. Adams, John Quincy. DERMOT MAC MORROGH, OR THE CONQUEST OF
IRELAND; An Historical Tale of the Twelfth Century in Four Cantos. Boston: Carter,
Hendee & Co., 1832. A 10-page Dedication and Preface “To my countrymen and
readers” by the author, is followed by a long 92-page narrative poem in 266 8-line ottava
rima stanzas. There is an errata slip tipped in at the last page. Several of the errata items
appear to have been hand-corrected in the text in Adams’s hand. The book has been
rebound in leather c.1950, now faintly rubbed, with gilt lettering on the spine. The text is
complete with the half-title and trailing blank, in very good condition showing just
occasional light foxing. Adams once wrote, “Could I have chosen my own genius and
condition, I would have made myself a great poet.” Indeed, a collection of his shorter
verse, Poems of Religion and Society, was published in 1848 and went through many
printings in the following decades. The first poem in that book, The Wants of Man, was
later cited by Ralph Waldo Emerson as one of his favorite poems. However, Dermot
Mac Morrogh was not a success, perhaps due in part to Adams’s intent for it to be “a
moral tale, teaching the citizens of these States of both sexes, the virtues of conjugal
fidelity, of genuine piety, and of devotion to their country.” Note: There has been only one
other book of poetry by an American president, Always a Reckoning by Jimmy Carter, published in
1995. There have also been a number of collections of Abraham Lincoln’s writings that incorporate
some early verse, and no doubt similar miscellaneous poems by other presidents have appeared in
print. The New Yorker recently unearthed two undergraduate poems by current presidential aspirant
Barack Obama that were published in 1981 in Feast, the Occidental College literary magazine.
When asked to comment, Harold Bloom told The New Yorker that he was “not unimpressed by the
young man’s efforts,” in contrast to his scathing dismissal of Carter’s book, calling him “literally the
worst poet in the United States.” We would hazard that 6 would suffer a much kinder fate than 39 if
subject to that kind of scrutiny. Quite scarce. $750.00
James Agee’s copy at Phillips Exeter Academy, March, 1927
2. [Agee, James] Sinclair Lewis. ELMER GANTRY. New York: Harcourt, Brace and
Company, 1927. A later printing, ex-library copy with the bookplate of The Phillips
Exeter Academy library on the front pastedown, stamped DISCARDED, in good condition
only, but with James Agee’s signature, J R
Agee dated March 1927 on the front free
endpaper. In March, 1927, Agee, at age 17,
was in his “upper-middle” year (junior) at
Exeter, an admirer of Sinclair Lewis and
already committed to a literary career,
submitting poems and stories to the Phillips
Exeter Monthly. This is the very copy
mentioned in one of his early letters to Father
Flye (Letters of James Agee to Father Flye, pp. 27-28,) dated Exeter March 17, 1927.
Agee writes: “I’ve bought and read Elmer Gantry, the Lewis satire on religion. It’s very

disappointing, although excellent in spots. He’s turning rancid.” Reflecting his own
social and psychological unease at the time, Agee soon expands this somewhat, in one of
his earliest published critical articles, a review of Elmer Gantry that appeared in the
Phillips Exeter Monthly 31 (May, 1927,) “It is one gigantic crescendo of walloping
filthiness, and I have the feeling that it carried Mr. Lewis before it, and left him stranded
where not even himself can work his salvation.” This copy later belonged to Henry
Darcy Curwen, of the Exeter English faculty, who added his name below Agee’s and
later donated it to the Phillips Exeter library. Early signed Agee material is uncommon
and the important resonance of this copy with his beginning literary efforts can hardly be
exaggerated. $2,000.00
3. Anania, Giovanni Lorenzo d’ LA UNIVERSAL FABRICA DEL MONDO. Naples:
Giuseppe Cacchi dell’Aquila, 1573. A pleasing quarto in contemporary vellum, rebacked
with vellum at an early date with a contemporary lettering piece. With slight worming at
the first and last few leaves, occasional toning, and traces of damp staining at the back.
Anania (c.1545 – c.1607) was born in Calabria and spent most of his scholarly career in
Naples under the sponsorship of Archbishop Mario Carafa. This cosmographia was a
popular treatise on world geography that went into three subsequent editions in 1576,
1582, and 1596. His method appears to have combined a careful perusal of classical,
medieval, and contemporary texts with reports of seamen and travelers, principally
Jesuits, coming through the port of Naples. Part of the prefatory material includes an
extensive two-page listing of authors cited, and there are also four pages of errata. The
work is divided into four sections, each separately paginated: dell’ Europa (156); dell’
Asia (88); dell’ Africa (44); and del Nuovo Mondo (40), with a blank separating the third
and fourth sections. The section on the New World gives an early account of the Spanish
colonies in the Americas. Noteworthy in the text are many of the earliest known
references in print to regions, peoples, and cities of Africa, Asia and the Americas. This
first edition is very scarce, not in OCLC. $2,750.00
The waies deep, the weather sharp,
. . . the very dead of Winter
4. Andrewes, Lancelot. XCVI. SER-
MONS BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE,
AND REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,
LANCELOT ANDREWES, LATE LORD
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. Published, by
His Majesties Speciall Command. The
Second Edition. Frontispiece portrait of
Andrewes. London: Printed by Richard
Badger, 1632. With half-title and first
and second engraved title pages, all
mounted. A fine folio copy in
contemporary calf with the embossed
royal arms of Charles I in gilt on the front
and rear panels. The main group of
sermons has a continuous pagination, 1 –
1008; followed by a secondary group.
Certaine Sermons Preached at Sundry
Times, Upon Severall Occasions,

separately paginated 1 – 167, with the first leaf of the first sermon in this group
unpaginated. At the end of the text is a separate section with its own Richard Badger title
page dated 1631, A SERMON PREACHED AT THE FUNERAL OF THE RIGHT
HONORABLE AND REVEREND FATHER IN GOD LANCELOT LATE BISHOP OF
WINCHESTER (by J. Buckeridge,) paginated 1 – 22. Andrewes (1555 – 1626) Bishop of
Winchester, was one of the major figures of the English Episcopal Church during the
reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. Among the most learned of churchmen of that period,
he was also an important member of the group of scholars that created the King James
Translation of the Bible. Most of his essays and sermons were not printed until after his
death. His theological outlook and prose style greatly influenced T.S. Eliot whose essay,
For Lancelot Andrewes, commends him particularly as someone whose intellect becomes
manifest in his prose: “To persons whose minds are habituated to feed on the vague
jargon of our time, when we have a vocabulary for everything and exact ideas about
nothing . . . Andrewes may seem pedantic and verbal. It is only when we have saturated
ourselves in his prose, followed the movement of his thought, that we find his
examination of words terminating in the ecstasy of assent.” As a further homage, the
opening of Eliot’s poem Journey of the Magi is a direct quotation from Andrewes’s 1622
nativity sermon, here given on page 143: “Last we consider the time of their coming, the
season of the yeare. It was no Summer Progresse. A cold coming they had of it, at this
time of the yeare; just the worst time of the yeare, to take a journey, and specially a long
journey, in. The waies deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in
Solstitio brumali, the very dead of Winter.” $4,000.00
5. Aury, Dominique as Pauline Reage. HISTOIRE D’O. Avec une preface de Jean
Paulhan: Du bonheur dans l’esclavage. (Paris:) A Sceaux chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert,
1954. Near-fine in crisp yellow printed wrappers. This is copy 172 of the 480 copies on
vergé numbered 21 to 500, out of a total printing of only 600 copies. TOUS CES
EXEMPLAIRES SONT HORS-COMMERCE, as stated on the copyright page. A very nice
copy of the original edition of what is generally acknowledged to be the erotic
masterpiece of the twentieth century. $1,150.00
First American edition of Sense and Sensibility
6. Austen, Jane. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1833. Very
good and uncut in the publisher’s original boards in cloth spines but without the paper
spine labels. There is occasional foxing as could be expected, more heavily in the first
volume. An elaborate contemporary ownership signature is found on the front free
endpaper of Vol I but there is no comparable leaf in Vol II. Both volumes have the exlibris
of Frank L. Hadley laid in with his library number typed on. There are no
advertisement leaves in either volume. In Vol II, the middle two conjugate leaves,
containing pages 93-96, had come loose and been neatly pinned in quite some time ago.
Although Sense and Sensibility was the first of Jane Austen’s novels to be published in
England, it was the last to be published in America when all six of the novels were issued
by Carey & Lea in 1832-33. However, as Gilson notes, enough copies of the English
editions could have been available for American readers to satisfy the demand.
According to the publisher’s records, 1250 sets of sheets of this edition were printed and
Gilson, as of 1982, records 12 copies in collections as well as a handful of auctioned
copies in the mid-1960’s. Many of these are rebound or missing substantial portions. In
common with all of these Carey & Lea editions, the text was freely and considerably
altered by the editors in an effort to comply with American reading tastes. Gilson notes

67 instances of this in Sense and Sensibility. Some of these are misprints or actual
corrections but the majority are to remove specific references to the Deity or to subtly
lower the emotional tone of the dialogue. In a custom double chemise clamshell box.
[Gilson B6] $6,000.00
7. Bialoszewski, Miron. THE REVOLUTION OF THINGS. Introduction and Translations
from the Polish by Andrzej Busza and Bogdan Czaykowski. Washington: The
Charioteer Press, 1974. Limited to 400 copies. An attractive crisp copy in a like dust
jacket. There is a penciled ownership signature on the front free endpaper and 12 of the
pages have extensive penciled marginal notations. The poet’s first appearance in English
translation. $45.00
Denise Lubett Designer Binding
8. [Binding] Bernard de Fontenelle. A PLURALITY OF WORLDS. Translation by
John Glanvill. Prologue by David Garnett. Color-stencilled head-pieces by T. L.
Poulton. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Designed by Francis Meynell, composed
by T. W. Hay at the Nonesuch Press, and printed on Van Gelder paper at the Curwen
Press. One of 1200 numbered copies. In a designer binding by Denise Lubett, featuring
blue Oasis goat skin with onlays of grey, red, and pale blue goat skin. The design is based
on a medieval astronomical diagram and shows the orbit of four small spheres around a
larger body. A lovely compliment to the text and a fine example of Lubett's work.
Lubett’s small monogrammed label, DYL, is affixed to the rear end paper and there is an
ownership bookplate on the front end paper. In a matching gilt-lettered quarter-leather
clamshell box. $2,250.00
[Binding] See also item No. 24, DISQUISITIONUM MAGICARUM.
An unrecorded Italian bookseller’s catalog, Venice 1793
9. [Books about Books] Baglioni, Heirs of. CATALOGO DELLI LIBRI ITALIANI
CHE SI TROVANO VENDIBILI DA GL’EREDI BAGLIONI IN VENEZIA L’ANNO
MDCCXCIII. Venice: Heirs of Baglioni, 1793. There are an estimated 7500 to 8000
items listed, each priced in Lire, Soldi, divided into three sections with separate
paginations: a) Catalogo Delli Libri Italiani, 142 pages; b) Catalogus Librorum Rubro-
Nigorum et vel latino, vel gallico sermon inscriptorum, 74 pages; c) Catalogue des Livres
Francois, 19 pages. The Baglioni family of printers and publishers was active in Venice
from 1598 to 1850 and had specialized in the publishing of liturgical books, ‘rubronigni’,
i.e. books printed in red and black. A bibliographical article on Tommaso
Baglioni only mentions three catalogs issued by the Baglioni Heirs that were dated
between 1824 and 1849. A fine copy in the original boards, with a handwritten paper
spine label. The text is unmarked and shows very light occasional foxing. $750.00
10. [Books about Books] Tuer, Andrew W. HISTORY OF THE HORN-BOOK.
London: The Leadenhall Press, Ltd., 1896. Two volumes. Very good in the publisher’s
original stiff vellum, stamped in gilt with leather spine labels. With hand-colored title
pages in each volume and many plates in the text, some folding. The special pockets at
the front of each volume together only contain half of the facsimile horn-books that were
issued with the set. $275.00

Item No. 64

Inscribed by the publisher to James T. Fields
11. Bradstreet, Anne. THE WORKS OF ANNE BRADSTREET IN PROSE AND
VERSE. Edited by John Harvard Ellis. Charlestown: Abram E. Cutter, 1867. Number
128 of only 250 copies printed, each numbered and initialed by the publisher. This copy
is additionally inscribed on the half-title to James T. Fields at the time of publication:
“James T. Fields Esq. with the kind regards of Abram E. Cutter. Oct 17/67” James T.
Fields has also signed his name on the front end paper. This is the fourth edition of Anne
Bradstreet’s poetry, with a Preface and an extensive Introduction by Ellis, and includes
the first full printing of Bradstreet’s Religious Experience and Occasional Poems and
Meditations, Divine and Moral. The first two editions, The Tenth Muse Lately Spring Up
in America (London, 1650) and Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and
Learning, Full of Delight (Boston, 1678) are unobtainable. The third, published in
Boston in 1758 as a reprint of the second with minor alterations, is also extremely scarce.
Anne Bradstreet was the first poet in America and the second edition of her poems was
the first book of poetry printed in the British colonies. This edition is a lavish production
as well as a careful editorial compilation. There is a frontispiece engraving of the
Bradstreet House, North Andover, Massachusetts and a full-page engraving of Anne’s
husband Simon Bradsteet (there are no extant images of Anne Bradstreet,) as well as
facsimile title pages of the three previous editions. A fine association as James T. Fields
(1817-1881) was then at the height of his influence as the pre-eminent literary publisher
in the U.S. with his Ticknor & Fields Boston imprint and as editor of the Atlantic
Monthly. (For an outstanding example of his memoir, Yesterdays with Authors, see item
No. 31 below.) This is a handsome quarto copy that has had some professional
restoration to the green cloth binding and to the original spine label which is missing the
last three letters of ‘Bradstreet.’ The text is unmarked but shows occasional light foxing.
$1,750.00
12. Brontë, Emily Jane. GONDAL POEMS. Now First Published from the MS. in the
British Museum. Edited by Helen Brown & Joan Mott. Oxford: Printed at the
Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1938. Two full-
page facsimiles are reproduced in the text. The printed note on the front of the dust
jacket states: “The MS. now edited for the first time contains 44 poems in Emily’s
handwriting, of which two complete poems and large parts of two others have not been
printed in any collection of her Works. Other poems present important variants from the
versions previously printed.” Fine in dark orange cloth and gilt spine lettering, in a
near-fine dust jacket showing only the most minor wear but very attractive. With the exlibris
of museum benefactor, Molly Flagg Gibb. $375.00
13. Bunting, Basil. COLLECTED POEMS. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Near fine in printed wrappers, with some sunning on the front panel. This is the simultaneous
first paperbound issue of the revised collected poems first published in 1968 by

Fulcrum Press and includes four new poems. This copy is signed by Bunting on the title
page and dated 1980. Scarce thus. $175.00
14. Burns, Robert. POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT. Frontispiece portrait
by A. Nasmyth. Third Edition. London: A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1787. A handsome copy
of the scarce first London edition, published the same year as the Kilmarnock and
Edinburgh, and often referred to as the “stinking” edition because of the error on page
267, line 13 with “skinking” incorrectly given as “stinking.” In contemporary calf that
has recently been professionally restored with a new spine with gilt lettering and design,
and with renewed end papers. $1,250.00
15. Calamy, Ed.(Edmund), B. D. THE GODLY MANS ARK OR, CITY OF REFUGE, IN
THE DAY OF HIS DISTRESSE. Discovered in divers SERMONS, The first of which was
Preached at the Funerall of Mistresse Elizabeth Moore. The other four were afterwards
preached, and are all of them now made publick, for the supportation and consolation of
the Saints of God in the hour of tribulation. Hereunto are annexed Mrs. Moores
Evidences for Heaven, composed and collected by her in the time of her health, for her
comfort in times of sickness. London: Printed for John Hancock (Brother to the late
deceased Eliz. Moore) to be sold at the first shop in Popes-head Alley, next to Cornhill.
And for Tho. Parkhurst at the three Crowns over against the Great Conduit at the lower
end of Cheapside, 1657. This is the variant issue with the “John Hancock” imprint.
Immensely popular, The Godly Mans Ark had gone though eight additional editions by
1678, and there were eighteen printings by 1708. Edmund Calamy the Elder (1600-1666)
took a prominent role in the religious controversies of the time and was appointed one of
the “Westminster Divines.” He became a well-known church figure largely through the
sermons published in this book, but had been one of the five authors of the important
1641 “Smectymnuus” Presbyterian tract: An Answer to a Book entitled, An Humble
Remonstrance in which, the original of Liturgy and Episcopacy is discussed: and Queries
proposed concerning both. The Parity of Bishops & Presbyters in Scripture demonstrated.
The occasion of their Imparity in Antiquity discovered. The Disparity of the
Ancient & our modern Bishops manifested. The Antiquity of Ruling Elders in the Church
vindicated. The Prelatical church bounded. Written by Smectymnuus. [i.e., S(tephen)
M(arshall), E(dmund) C(alamy), T(homas) Y(oung), M(atthew) N(ewcommen), and
W(illiam) S(purstow).]
The text block is loosely fit into its contemporary 17 th -century worn sheep binding that
functions now as a case. In this copy, two of the 8-leaf signatures were transposed by an
error during the binding and unfortunately three others are missing. The original
collation should be A8 b8 c4 B8-R8 S4, with the text proper ending with R6 (p.254) and
R8-S4 comprising 10 pages of publisher’s advertisements. This copy has A8 b8 c4 D8 C8
G8-R8 S4, missing B8, E8 and F8, pages 1-16, and 49-80. Strangely, the original binding
fits tightly around the text block so that it appears as if the pages could have been missing
when the binding was done, possibly resulting from censorship. All of the preliminary
matter is present. Text contents will be provided on request. In addition, there are four
leaves (8 pages) of what appears to be a near-contemporary manuscript bound in at the
rear and it is not unlikely that this manuscript text makes up part of the missing printed
text. OCLC records only the British Library copy which has the “Jo. Hancock” title page
and complete text but lacks the 10 pages of advertisements. In a custom clamshell box.
$4,000.00

16. Camden, William. ANNALES RERUM ANGLICARUM ET HIBERNICARUM,
REGNANTE ELIZABETHA. Prima pars emendatior. Altera nunc primum in lucem
edita. Leiden: Elzevir, 1625. With the engraved portrait frontispiece of Elizabeth and the
engraved title page, both in excellent condition. Fine in contemporary stiff vellum, with
title and date hand lettered on the spine. Elizabeth’s reign is divided chronologically into
four parts, with continuous pagination. The first three parts, here with emendations, were
originally published in London in 1615. Part IV, which completes her reign from 1589
until her death in 1603, is published here for the first time. Parts I-III are indexed
together, with a separate index for part IV which also has a separate title. With the
armorial bookplate of A. G. du Plessis, and beneath, a smaller armorial plate: EX-LIB P
DE LA MORANDIERE. $1,750.00
17. Chavèe, Achille. UNE FOI POUR TOUTES. POÈMES. La Louvière: Edition des
Cahiers de RUPTURE, 1938. Inscribed by Chavèe at the time of publication to Julien
Levy, the important promoter of Surrealist art. Number 138 of the 185 copies on papier
vergé. Good only in printed wrappers with a water stain along a portion of the spine
extending slightly onto the front and rear panels, as well as some light foxing on the
preliminary panels. A rare title by the Belgian surrealist (1906-1969) who was one of the
founders of RUPTURE and his second publication under the RUPTURE imprint.
RUPTURE and Chavèe received initial encouragement from Breton and Eluard, and
Chavèe remained a leading figure in the postwar Belgian avant-garde. $275.00
18. Collins, William. ODES ON SEVERAL DESCRIPTIVE AND ALLEGORIC SUBJECTS.
London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1747. In a handsome 19 th -century Belgian
binding of ¼-leather over marbled boards, with the Gand (Ghent) binder’s label of A. de
Decker-Lemaire. The front panel is lightly rubbed and there is a 20 th -century ex-libris on
the front pastedown. There are skillful repairs to the margins of F1-4 and the catchword
on the verso of H1 is shaved. William Collins (1721-1759) is considered one of the
major English poets of the 18 th -century despite his limited output, largely on the basis of
these odes which clearly presage the romantic movement. He published this collection at
the age of 26 with great hope but was disappointed with its reception and is said to have
bought up unsold copies and burned them, which may account for the scarcity of this
title. He soon entered a period of mental decline and was able to publish little more verse
before he died. These odes became more admired throughout the 19 th -century and
Swinburne wrote of them as showing: “above all things, a purity of music, a clarity of
style, to which I know of no parallel in English verse from the death of Andrew Marvell
to the birth of William Blake.” [No. 46 in the Grolier Club’s memorable 1903 exhibition:
One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature] $2,850.00
19. Columb, Fernand. LA VIE DE CRISTOFLE COLUMB, ET LA DECOUVERTE
QU’IL A FAITE DES INDES OCCIDENTALES, VULGAIREMENT APPELLEES LE
NOUVEAU MONDE. Composee par Fernand Colomb son Fils & traduite en Francois.
Paris: Claude Barbin et Christophe Ballard, 1681. In two parts with separate pagination
and title pages, bound as one. The first title page is repaired at the margin and has an
ownership signature dated 1817. In very good condition throughout in what appears to
be an early 19 th -century quarter leather with marbled boards French binding stamped with
the monogram SG on the lower spine. Leaf A8 in Part I is missing the bottom portion
with no loss of text. Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1539,) the illegitimate second son of
Christopher Columbus, accompanied his father on his fourth voyage at the age of 14, and

left this account of that voyage along with a biography of his father which is one of the
two primary sources on Columbus’s life. As a student, Ferdinand received a superb
humanist education under the sponsorship of Isabel I of Castile and Ferdinand II of
Aragon and, throughout the rest of his life, he traveled in Europe on diplomatic missions
for the Spanish court during which he assembled his renowned personal collection of
books and prints. His collections, especially the prints, were unsurpassed at the time and
he is considered the first European to seriously collect them. The first edition of this
work was printed in Italian in 1571 and this first French edition was translated from the
Italian. The first English translation did not appear until 1704 as part of Churchill’s A
Collection of Voyages and Travels. Quite rare. $1,250.00
20. Cooper, Anna J. (Julia.) LE PÈLERINAGE DE CHARLEMAGNE. Introduction de
l’Abbé Félix Klein. Paris: A. Lahure, 1925. Fine in printed blue wrappers in the
publisher’s original glassine. Anna Julia Cooper (1859-1964) was born to a mother who
was a slave and lived into the American civil rights era of the 1960s. She is best known
for her novel, A Voice from the South, published in 1892. This work was published
shortly after she had completed her Ph.D. in Latin literature at the Sorbonne. An
Emerging Voices author. $250.00
Porphyro in Akron
21. [Crane, Hart] THE DOUBLE-DEALER A NATIONAL MAGAZINE FROM THE
SOUTH. Vol. II, Nos. 8-9, August-September, 1921. The first printing of Hart Crane’s
important early poem, Porphyro in Akron, appears on page 53. With this poem, he began
to explore the possibilities of the extended lyrical narrative that eventually led him to the
masterful narrative structure of The Bridge. In a letter* to Matthew Josephson written in
January, 1921, Crane responds to one of Josephson’s criticisms of Porphyro in Akron as
follows: “What you say about the Akron suite is very true. I have only one point of
disagreement with you, – crudeness of form. This was deliberate, and you have to
convince me that such a treatment of such a mood and subject is inconsistent before we
can pick asphodels together again on the slopes of Parnassus.” Very good in illustrated
wrappers and uncommon. [* See item 23 ] $95.00

22. [Crane, Hart] FIRST DAY COVER honoring the launching of the Liberty ship S. S.
Hart Crane, named for the poet. A 7-1/2 x 3-7/8 inch stamped envelope, postmarked
Long Beach, Calif. Dec 22 ’43, with a five-line heading typed vertically at the left:
“First Day Cover – Launching of / S. S. HART CRANE”, / California Shipbuilding
Corporation, / Terminal Island, California, / Wednesday, December 22, 1943. In
addition, it bears the signature, Pauline Conyes, above a device, stamped in red, reading
“Help Speed National Defense.” The S. S. Hart Crane, Liberty ship number 2551, was
sold for private use in 1947, after the war, and finally scrapped in 1966. These transport
ships were each assembled in just weeks and named for prominent (deceased) Americans.
Groups that raised $2 million dollars by selling War Bonds could propose a name for a
Liberty ship. However we have not determined how the name Hart Crane was selected
or the connection of Pauline Conyes to the launching. An interesting ephemeral item
nonetheless and not without its ironies. $65.00
23. Crane, Hart. O MY LAND, MY FRIENDS THE SELECTED LETTERS. Foreword
by Paul Bowles. Edited by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber. Introduction and
Commentary by Langdon Hammer. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1997. Over
one hundred of Crane’s letters are printed here for the first time. An uncorrected proof
copy, very good in light green printed wrappers. $50.00
24. Del Rio, Martin Antonio. DISQUISITIONUM
MAGICARUM LIBRI SEX, IN TRES TOMOS.
Mainz: Johann Albin, 1603. One of the earliest folio
editions of the complete text of Del Rio’s late 16 th -
century encyclopedic treatise on magic in a notably
well-preserved binding, very appropriate to the book, of
contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards
with the original brass catches and clasps intact. The
spine has the original hand-written title, author and
library number and the front panel has the circular gilt
ownership stamp of the ALTENBURG BIBLIOTH.
SCHOL. The engraved
title has an historiated
border showing 11
scenes from Exodus,
with two excised
portions in the upper
and lower blank
margins. Occasional
heavy browning occurs throughout the text. Each of
the three parts is separately paginated and the folding
plate in part two at p. 91 is present. Martin Del Rio
(1551-1608) was a scholarly Jesuit living in the
Netherlands but born in Spain, whose writings were
well respected and widely published throughout Europe
beginning with an edition of Seneca at age nineteen.
This work was completed and published in Louvain in
1599 and the present edition may be the first with all of
the six books to be published outside of the

Netherlands. Del Rio brought a scholarly approach to the study of the various aspects of
magic, natural, artificial, delusory, and demonic, and many of his references preserve
early sources that would otherwise have been lost. But, through his recommendations on
how to deal with the practitioners of magic and overcome their effects, the influence of
Disquisitionum Magicarum came to rival that of the 15 th -century Malleus Maleficarum,
going through at least 20 editions, the last in Venice in 1747,* and is generally thought to
have revived the extremely harsh treatment for those accused of witchcraft and other
forms of sorcery. *The first English translation, edited by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, was
recently issued by Manchester University Press. $4,000.00
25. Dent, Tory. WHAT SILENCE EQUALS. Foreword by Sharon Olds. New York:
Persea Books, 1993. Very good in illustrated wrappers. A paperbound original of the
late poet’s first book. This copy is signed by Dent on the half-title page. $100.00
26. Didion, Joan. MIAMI. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Fine in a like dust
jacket. This copy is signed on the title page by the author. $125.00
Three farthings is the woorth of
this Book
27. Donne, John. POEMS BY J. D.
WITH ELEGIES ON THE AUTHORS
DEATH. London: Printed by M. F. for
John Marriot, and are to be sold at his
Shop in St. Dunstan’s Church-yard in
Fleet-Street, 1635. This is the second
edition (first in octavo,) following the first
edition of 1633 issued by the same
publisher, with both being quite scarce.
This second edition is the first to have the
poems separated into sections, headed
Songs and Sonets, Epigrams, Elegies,
Epithalamions, Satyres, Letters, Divine
Poems, etc., and is also the first edition to
have the engraved frontispiece portrait of
the author which is bound in here in an
excellent facsimile (a number of the
extant copies of the 1635 Marriot edition are also found lacking the original portrait.)
According to Keynes’s summary in his bibliography of Donne, “in this edition the pieces
have been rearranged and there are some changes to the text; they include all that had
appeared in 1633 with the exception of Basse’s Epitaph upon Shakespeare, and Thomas
Browne’s elegy on the author. Of the thirty-seven pieces that have been added twentynine
are poems supposed to be by Donne; of these one appears twice and eleven are not
accepted as genuine. This edition contains therefore seventeen additional poems by
Donne. The Hexastichon ad Bibliopolam. Incerti on A4b is also an addition.” The text is
complete, with the Errata on Dd8a, and in generally good condition, however with a
somewhat worn title page and with the facsimile portrait. The restored binding retains
the contemporary leather front and back panels but has recently been re-backed with a
gilt lettering piece. Donne’s name is written out on the title page after his initial “D” and
there are a few other early markings as well. There is the late 18 th -century ex-libris of

Gregory Lewis Way on the front pastedown. Gregory Lewis Way (1756-1799) was educated
at Eton and Oxford, then chose the life of an Essex country gentleman with antiquarian interests
whose avocation was poetry. A volume of his poems was published in 1782 and his memoirs along
with those of his son, were published in 1845 with a Preface by William Wordsworth. He also
translated Fabliaux, or Tales, abridged from French Manuscripts of the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Centuries, by M. Le Grand, assisted by George Ellis who completed the second volume after his
death and contributed a wonderful memoir of Way, in part: “His principal amusement was literature,
and particularly poetry: and from this choice of occupations and amusements, a choice dictated
partly by reflection, and partly, perhaps, by the effects of a situation and early habit, he certainly
acquired such a constant flow of cheerfulness, as a life of more activity and a greater variety of
resource, often fails to produce.” The front blank has a 1781 Cambridge University
ownership signature and an unimpressed earlier owner had written on the verso of Dd8b
(blank,) in what appears to be a late 17 th -century hand: “Three farthings is the woorth of
this Book.” In a custom clamshell box. [The 1633 edition is No. 25 in the Grolier
Club’s One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature; Keynes 79] $8,500.00
28. Duns Scotus, John. SCRIPTUM. Lugduni: Joannis Crespin, 1530. Parts 2 & 3
bound in one volume, with separate title and colophon pages for each part, the title pages
printed in red and black and showing an elaborate architecturally framed woodcut of
Duns Scotus writing in his library. The front pastedown and title page have the library
stamp of the BIBLOTHECA PUSEIANA OXON, the library at Pusey House, formed from
the collection of Edward B. Pusey (1800-1882,) Fellow at Oriel, and the influential head
of the “Oxford Movement” for the revival of Catholicism. Below the BIBLOTHECA
PUSEIANA stamp on the pastedown, is the 19 th -century armorial book plate of Richard
Robert Madden, M.D. (1798-1886,) the Irish literary essayist, travel writer, and antislavery
advocate. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) converted to Catholicism while
at Oxford and there is extant correspondence between Pusey and Hopkins from that
period. Hopkins’ affinity for the philosophical outlook of Duns Scotus and the important
role it played in his decision to convert is well-known, as is evidenced by his poem, Duns
Scotus’s Oxford: “Yet ah! This air I gather and I release / He lived on; these weeds and
waters, these walls are what / He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to
peace;” Richard Madden was a serious book collector and there are records of his sales
taking place in Dublin on January 13, 1846, November 20, 1865 and December 6, 1886.
In addition, there is a note on Madden as a book collector in the Irish Book Lover, No. 10
(1919,) which we have not seen. If Pusey had been in possession of this book during the
time that he knew Hopkins at Oxford, it is very likely that Hopkins would have had a
chance to see it and even study it. Hopkins was appointed Fellow at University College,
Dublin, in 1884 and remained there until his death so it is even possible that they met.
But that is speculation. A handsome very well-preserved copy in contemporary calf that
has been carefully restored with remnants of the original spine laid down. $1,450.00
29. [Eliot, George] Frederick R. Karl. GEORGE ELIOT. VOICE OF A CENTURY A
BIOGRAPHY. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. Very good in yellow printed
wrappers. An uncorrected proof copy. $75.00
30. Eliot, T. S. IL LIBRO DEI GATTI TUTTOFARE (Old Possum’s Book of Practical
Cats.) Traduzione di Roberto Sanesi. Prefazione di Emilio Tadini. Disegni di Edward
Gorey. Milano: Tascabili Bompiani, 1994. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. $30.00

31. Fields, James T. YESTERDAYS WITH AUTHORS. London: Sampson Low,
Marston, Low, and Searle, 1872. Extra-Illustrated edition two volumes. Fine in a red
morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. There are 102 engraved plates of authors past
and present, actors and actresses, artists, views of the English countryside, and
architectural interiors, each keyed to a corresponding mention on the adjoining page of
the text. A four-page ALS from Fields to Miss Mitford is tipped in at the head of the first
volume. In addition, each volume has an actual royalty check from Ticknor & Fields
tipped in, with a holograph endorsement from the author on the verso. The check in Vol.
I is to Lydia Maria Child, and in Vol. II to Alice Cary, both Emerging Voices authors.
Laid in also is a short undated note from Fields, on his card, admitting a lady to an
afternoon lecture. An unusual set, and especially so in such superb condition. $850.00
Fields, James T. See item No. 11.
32. Fitzgerald, Scott. LA FÊLURE. Nouvelles traduit de l’anglais par Dominique Aury
et Suzanne Mayoux. Préface de Robert Grenier. Paris: Gallimard, 1963. Fine in
wrappers printed in red and black, in the publisher’s glassine dust jacket showing just
minor edge wear. The text is largely unopened. This is no. 3 of 43 copies on Lafuma-
Navarre paper. A collection of some of Fitzgerald’s later stories, including the Basil &
Josephine series, and several others from the thirties, including The Crack-Up (La
Fêlure,) the only story in the collection translated by Dominique Aury. This is assuredly
not a French translation of The Crack-Up, the collection of stories, essays, notebook
excerpts, letters, and critical articles originally published by New Directions in 1945,
although several of the same pieces, including The Crack-Up, appear in both collections.
$200.00
33. Forster, E. M. THE STORY OF THE SIREN. Printed by Leonard and Virginia
Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Paradise Road, Richmond, 1920. Very good in blue
marbled wrappers with the front label in the scarce second state. The type for this
pamphlet, one of the first ten publications of The Hogarth Press, was set by Virginia
Woolf. One of a total of 500 copies for all three states and in unusually nice condition.
[Kirkpatrick A6] $950.00
The ‘genesis copy’ with two E. M. Forster ALS’s
34. [Forster, E. M.] Mrs. Eliza Fay. ORIGINAL LETTERS FROM INDIA (1779-
1815). With Introductory and Terminal Notes by E. M. Forster. London: The Hogarth
Press, 1925. Near fine in the publisher’s cloth. This is the ‘genesis copy’ of Original
Letters from India that E. M. Forster presented to Antony de Cosson who, nine years
earlier, in 1916 in Alexandria, had lent him his 1908 Calcutta reprint copy of Eliza Fay’s
book that initially triggered Forster’s interest. The front endpaper has the ex-libris of
Antony and Leonie de Cosson and de Cosson has underlined a sentence on page 8 of
Forster’s Introductory Notes (“I am grateful to this volume, for it was here I met Eliza
first,”) and added a marginal note at the bottom: I lent Forster my copy. A de C.
Alexandria, 1916. Laid in is a short ALS, attached to a small typed note reading With
the Author’s compliments., from Forster to de Cosson, dated 30-6-25: “Dear de
Cosson, You have probably forgotten who I am, but a book which is being sent to you by
my publisher’s may recall me to your recollection. It comes with my very best thanks,
Yours truly E. M. Forster.” We find it interesting that Forster did not explicitly
acknowledge de Cosson’s original assistance in his Introductory Notes.

But most importantly, affixed to the front endpaper is a most charming and wonderful
2-page letter from Forster to de Cosson, dated Alexandria, 10-10-17, which Forster had
laid into de Cosson’s 1908 reprint copy when he returned it to de Cosson. Apparently
Forster had first attempted to return it to de Cosson in person by bringing it to his
apartment but, not finding him at home, later left it at his club with this ALS laid in. De
Cosson, years later, transferred it to the present book when it came from the Hogarth
Press with Forster’s note. It is quite simply a superb Forster letter. In it, Forster manages
to convey the delight he found in Eliza Fay’s letters by assuming her voice and
pretending indignation when de Cosson was not at home and she found herself “debarred
from entering. “As you will imagine, she did not take this calmly. “We had every
reason,” she exclaims, “to bless those odious stairs, his servants if he keeps any which I
gravely doubt remaining within clos’d doors at the top nor paying heed to the repeated
blows of Mr. Fay.” – You see I have lived with her so long that I talk like her.” In very
good condition with light spotting on the edges and lacking the dust jacket. In addition to
his marginal comment on page 8, de Cosson has added two additional notes (pp. 19 and
232) in the text which further identify a “Mrs. Grand” referred to in the Fay letters, as the
Princesse de Talleyrand, an identification which must have escaped Forster’s notice
despite his carefully referenced “Terminal Notes” at the end of the text. [Kirkpatrick B3]
$4,000.00
35. [Francesco III, d’Este] GENGHISCANO IMPERADORE DE’ TARTARI MOGOLI
AZIONE ACCADEMICA DA RAPPRESENTARSI NEL GIORNO NATALIZIO DELL’
ALTEZZA SERENISSIMA DI FRANCESCO TERZO DUCA DI MODENA, REGGIO,
MIRANDOLA, EC. Various authors. Modena: Soliani Stampator Ducale, 1741. Fine in
original wrappers. This is the only known copy of a court presentation of a pageant to
celebrate the birthday of Francesco III, d’Este, Duke of Modena (1698 – 1780.) Modena
was recently in the news during the funeral of Luciano Pavarotti but in the early and mid-
18 th century, it was the focus of various diplomatic and military intrigues as the major
European powers struggled for control of the northern Italian principalities. Francesco III
had to navigate his way through these intrigues while maintaining his preferred lifestyle,
that of a “hedonist and libertine, although also one who loved the company of men of
letters and poets,” as one source puts it. The Austrian War of Succession (1742-1748)
began the year after this ducal birthday. Although Francesco III took part on the side of
Spain, he was able to confirm possession of the Duchy of Modena by the Peace of
Aquisgrana (1748) after which he remained loyal to the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa.
Given his sometimes precarious alliances, it is not surprising that he indulged in the
theme of Genghiscano Imperadore for this birthday pageant. This is an elegantly printed
pamphlet consisting of 8 pages of preliminary matter and 56 pages of text. The pageant
was divided into three acts, and the author responsible for the ‘conponimento’ of each act
is noted: Azione Prima: Signor Ottavio Giuseppe Micheli Patrizio Lucchese; Azione
Seconda: Signor Girolamo Parensi Patrizio Lucchese; and Azione Terza: Signor Conte
Galeazzo Arconati Visconte Milanese. A listing of actors for the 8 principal roles is
given in the preliminaries, and all of the other dancers, musicians, and choral performers
are listed at the end. SOLD
36. Frost, Robert. SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST. Edited by Lawrance
Thompson. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1964. A review copy
consisting of the complete set of printed signatures, unbound in a trial dust jacket. Laid
in is a 5 x 7 glossy b&w portrait photograph of Frost, captioned: “To be used in

connection with SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST,” a review slip giving the
publication date as August 31, 1964, a printed slip stating: “This is not the finished
jacket. It will be at least 10 shades lighter,” and a 2-page TLS to the Book Review Editor
of The New Yorker from A. C. Edwards, president of Holt. Rinehart & Winston,
concerning the book, in particular alerting the reviewer to Thompson’s selection which
“has balanced sympathy with detachment in representing the whole man. A great poet
and a beloved friend deserves so much more that the ‘dear old man image’ which has
been created about him.” Most of the letters are printed here for the first time. The
unbound signatures are in fine condition; the trial dust jacket shows wear especially along
the top edge. $75.00
Fulvio, Andrea. ILLUSTRIUM IMAGINES. See item No. 67.
37. [Gambling Broadsheet] T.N. (Thomas Neale) Groom-Porter. A PROFITABLE
ADVENTURE TO THE FORTUNATE, AND CAN BE UNFORTUNATE TO NONE.
London: Printed by F. Collins, in the Old Bailey, Printed Decemb. 5, 1693; Reprinted
Feb. 6, 1694. As “Groom-Porter,” an official of the Court responsible for gambling and
lotteries, Neale is reputed to have successfully raised the intended million pounds with
this lottery during the reign of William and Mary. Thomas Neale (1641-1699) is now
seen either as a distinguished and far-sighted public servant or as a somewhat unsavory
schemer. An MP for thirty years, he was also the first Postmaster General of the colonial
United States, and Master of the Mint until succeeded at his death by Isaac Newton, yet
Macaulay dismisses him as an “adventurer.” A very scarce broadside measuring 7½ x 12
inches, and printed on both sides. Very good. Free of markings but slightly darkened
and with a central horizontal fold. $2,750.00
38. [Gardening] (Henry) Stevenson, The Rev. Mr., of East-Retford, Nottinghamshire.
THE GENTLEMAN GARD’NERS’ DIRECTOR. BEING INSTRUCTIONS FOR
PLANTING AND SEWING, TREES OR SEEDS, FOR PROFIT OR PLEASURE. ALPHA-
BETICALLY DIGESTED. With Directions for the Management of BEES. To which is
added, The KALENDAR: Showing what Work is to be done every Month in the Year, in
the Kitchen-Garden, Flower-Garden and Orchard. London: Printed for S. Austen, in
Newgate Street, 1744. The Second Edition. [A6, B12-M12, N6] With a 9-page Introduction,
To all Lovers of Gardening. A nice copy of this handbook of gardening,
arranged alphabetically from ABRICOT to YUCCA, together with the monthly planting
Kalendar, and separate sections on producing a variety of berry-based wines, and the
management of bees. There are 3 pages at the rear listing “Books lately Printed for
Stephen Austen.” In the original boards with double-gilt borders, professionally restored
with a new lettering piece. The text is clear, unmarked, and free of foxing. A notable
example of this popular genre which went through seven editions by 1766. Now very
scarce. $600.00
39. Ginsberg, Allen. ANKOR WAT. Photographs by Alexandra Lawrence. Fine in a
near-fine dust jacket showing very minor wear at the upper edges. This is number 97 of
100 signed and number copies. $300.00
40. Giovanni, Nikki. BLACK FEELING BLACK TALK. Introduction by Barbara
Crosby. (Privately printed, 1968.) Near fine in olive printed wrappers. This 18-page
pamphlet is the poet’s first book. $325.00

Item No. 37

41. Giovanni, Nikki. BLACK JUDGEMENT. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1968. Very
good in wrappers illustrated by Bill Day. A photo of the poet by Johnny Smith is on the
inside rear wrapper. The poet’s second collection. This copy is inscribed on the title
page in red ink: For F____ / Black Peace / Nikki ’69. $275.00
42. Gorey, Edward. THE HAPLESS CHILD. New York: Ivan Oblensky, Inc., 1961.
Very good in somewhat worn illustrated purple wrappers. This early Gorey title is
inscribed on the title page and uncommon thus. [Toledano A8a] $200.00
43. Gréville, Henry. IDYLLES. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1885. Very good in a blue cloth
binding with a gilt lettering piece. Attached to one of the front blanks is a 2-page ALS,
dated 1889, to “Cherè amie” and signed “Votre amie / H. Gréville.” The name of the
recipient has been penciled in on the first page in a very small hand and we are unable to
decipher it. The half-title is present but a front blank appears to be missing. Henry
Gréville was the pseudonym chosen by Madame Alice Durand (1842-1902) who began to
write novels in St. Petersburg where she had moved with her family, and where she later
met and married her husband Émile Durand, a law professor. Her works became very
popular, particularly those describing life in Russia, and were widely translated. She was
well-known in the U.S. where she spent six months in 1885-86 traveling and lecturing in
French and English. Idylles is her penultimate book. $125.00
44. Guimarães Rosa, João. THE DEVIL TO PAY IN THE BACKLANDS. Translated
from the Portuguese by James L. Taylor and Harriet de Onís. Introductory note by Jorge
Amado entitled The Place of Guimarães Rosa in Brazilian Literature. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1963. Originally published in Brazil in 1956 as Grande Sertão: Veredas. Fine
in a very good dust jacket with fading on the spine that is commonly found on this title
and also with minor edge wear. This is the first book of Guimarães Rosa to appear in
English translation and quite scarce in as nice condition. $175.00
45. Hall, Donald. PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS OF PORTUGAL PROSE PIECES. Boston:
Beacon Press, 1995. Fine in red wrappers printed in black. An uncorrected proof copy
of the poet’s second collection of essays. $50.00
46. Heaney, Seamus. STATIONS. Belfast: Ulsterman Publications, 1975. Very good
in stapled illustrated wrappers. $250.00
47. Heaney, Seamus. DISTRICT AND CIRCLE. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2006. Fine in a like dust jacket. This copy is signed by the poet on the title page. Laid
in is an 8-1/2 x 11 white sheet printed on both sides that was handed out at the signing
event. The recto reprints Heaney’s poem, The Turnip-Snedder, from the book. The verso
prints a brief bio-bibliographical note. $125.00
48. Hearon, Shelby. ARMADILLO IN THE GRASS. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1968. Near fine in a like dust jacket that has some fading to the spine as usually seen
with this title. This copy of Shelby Hearon’s first novel has a personal family inscription
by the author on the front blank, dated in the month of publication. $200.00

49. Hemingway, Ernest. THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF ERNEST
HEMINGWAY. THE FINCA VIGIA EDITION. Foreword by John, Patrick, and Gregory
Hemingway. Preface by Charles Scribner, Jr. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1987.
An uncorrected proof copy that is very good in printed tan wrappers. This collection
includes seven pieces of short fiction by Hemingway that are published here for the first
time: A Train Trip, The Porter, Black Ass at the Cross Roads, Landscape with Figures,
I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something, Great News from the Mainland, and The
Strange Country. $125.00
50. Hémon, Louis. MARIA CHAPDELAINE A TALE OF THE LAKE ST. JOHN
COUNTRY. Translated by W. H. Blake. With an Introduction by Hugh Eayrs. New
York: The Modern Library, 1934. A charming copy of the Modern Library first edition
in the correct dust jacket with “225” on the rear jacket panel. The book has bright gilt
lettering and design on the spine and front panel. There is a brief ownership inscription
on the half-title but the text is otherwise free of markings. At the last page of text, a oneinch
printed slip is tipped-in, stating: “This book has been printed from the plates of the
Modern Readers’ Series.” The attractive dust jacket has very shallow chipping along the
top edge of the rear panel and wear at some of the corners. $65.00
Henry James’s first published extended work of fiction
51. James, Henry. POOR RICHARD.
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly, June No.
116, July No. 117, and August No. 118,
1867. Very good, with minimal spine
loss at some of the extremities, light shelf
wear and some light foxing, each firmly
bound in the original printed wrappers.
These three successive issues of The
Atlantic Monthly serialize Henry James’
story, Poor Richard, his first published
extended work of fiction and the earliest
of his published stories that he would see
reprinted and preserved in book form in
his lifetime. Leon Edel treats the writing
of Poor Richard extensively in Henry
James: The Untried Years, 1843-1870,
the first volume of his definitive
biography. The story centers on three
young men in their mid-twenties who
compete for the attentions of Miss
Gertrude Whittaker, the wealthy young
heroine, during a summer vacation in
rural New England. Two of them had
served as officers in the Civil War but the
third, Richard Clare, had avoided the
army and instead remained in school. Richard soon becomes aware of his worldly
inadequacies in relation to the officers, “as he gulped down the sickening fact of his
comparative, nay, his absolute ignorance of the great world represented by his rivals, he
felt like anticipating its consequences by a desperate sally into the very field of their

conversation.” Along with much of James’ early fiction, Poor Richard is autobiographical
and Edel associates Gertrude Whittaker with Minny Temple, a distant
cousin of Henry James to whom James later “consecrated the most moving of his
chapters of memory” in Notes of a Son and Brother (1914.) In the summer of 1865
James, along with his good friend Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and
Holmes’ friend, Judge Advocate John Chipman Gray, Jr., had visited North Conway in
the White Mountains where the four Temple sisters were also staying and each courted
Minny. Edel further identifies Minny Temple with Isabel Archer, who also had three
lovers in The Portrait of a Lady and finally, with Milly Theale in James’ late
masterpiece, The Wings of the Dove, thus making it clear that the events of 1865 in North
Conway led James into a continuing fictional theme from this first extended story
through his two major novels. James later included Poor Richard, in revised form, in his
three-volume collection, Stories Revived (1885.) Although single copies of The Atlantic
Monthly from this period can occasionally be found, these form a uniform set, all having
the same small subscriber’s slip pasted to the front wrapper, and make up an important
Jamesian artifact. [Edel & Laurence D37] $400.00
The affordable Macmillan ‘triple decker’ Portrait
52. James, Henry. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY. London: Macmillan, 1883. Three
volumes. Near fine in royal blue cloth with bright gilt front panel borders and spine
lettering on all three volumes. The texts are crisp and unmarked, except for the
ownership signature of Maud A. Marsland on the flyleaf of each volume, and without
foxing. This ‘triple decker’ edition of The Portrait of a Lady was issued as the first part
of Macmillan’s “Collective Edition of 1883.” It is slightly smaller in size (6 1/4 x 4 1/8 )
than the first Macmillan ‘triple decker’ edition (7 7/16 x 4 15/16 ) which was issued just two
years earlier. The “Collective Edition” was issued in a printing of 5,000 copies, both
bound in wrappers, and in cloth, as here. Additionally, some of the cloth copies were
also issued in a secondary binding in varying colors (salmon, ochre, cream, green, etc.)
with lettering and rules in brown. Edel & Laurence do not give the number of copies (of
the 5,000) that were issued in royal blue cloth. The 1881 first edition was printed in just
750 copies, followed by an additional 250 copies of a second issue, dated 1882 on the
title page. Since the American editions were all issued in the single volume format, these
volumes of the “Collective Edition” have become the most readily attainable edition
resembling the original, and are now quite difficult to find in such nice condition. [Edel
& Laurence A20] $475.00
53. James, Henry. THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEER MOTOR-AMBULANCE CORPS
IN FRANCE. A Letter to the Editor of an American Journal. London: Macmillan and
Co., Limited, 1914. Very good in stapled blue-grey printed wrappers, with some
chipping at the corners and along the spine. A 12-page ‘letter’ that later appeared in
abbreviated and edited form in the New York World under James’s by-line in January,
1915, and was reprinted in full, posthumously, in Within the Rim and Other Essays 1914-
15 in 1919. Although listed by Edel & Laurence as their second item part C, “Published
Letters,” it reads as if James, too, considered it more to be an original essay, as illustrated
by the following sentences on p. 10: “I have doubtless said enough, however, in
illustration of the interest attaching to this service, a service in which not one of the
forces of social energy and devotion, not one of the true social qualities, sympathy,
ingenuity, tact and taste, fail to come into play. Such an exercise of them, as all the
incidental possibilities are taken advantage of, represents for us all, who are happily not

engaged in the huge destructive work, the play not simply of a reparatory or consolatory,
but a positively productive and creative virtue in which there is a peculiar honour.” Edel
& Laurence state that there were 2000 copies of this only separate printing (yet it is
extremely scarce, with no copies listed in OCLC,) and further, that Macmillan issued it in
a white envelope with imprint, “A Motor Ambulance in France | by Henry James” (not
present.) Most of the edition may have been intended for mailing to a general readership,
and largely discarded. The BAL entry does not give the number of copies printed or
mention an envelope. [BAL 10683; Edel & Laurence C2] $400.00
54. [Joyce, James] Charles Duff.
JAMES JOYCE AND THE PLAIN
READER. With a Prefatory Letter by
Herbert Read. London: Desmond
Harmsworth, 1932. Near fine in light
green cloth with crisp orange lettering on
the spine. The text is clear and unmarked
but there is some light off-setting from the
dust jacket on the front and rear end
papers. The dust jacket is very nice with
an elegant front panel featuring a line
drawing of Joyce by the publisher,
Desmond Harmsworth, that does not
appear elsewhere in the text. The spine is
lightly sunned and there is some chipping
at the upper spine. Duff’s critical essay
on Joyce, an early publication of this
kind, with an Appendix giving a brief
bibliography followed by a short list of
critical writings. The errata slip is not
present, however, there is a one-page
advertising sheet laid in, printed on one
side, for the novel Plummer’s Cut by Basil Maine, which had just been issued by
Harmsworth. The dust jacket, with the drawing, is quite scarce in as nice condition as
here. There was a second edition later in the same year that has the same jacket drawing
set within a frame. $125.00
55. Lactantius. L. COELLI LACTANTII FIRMIANI DIUINARUM INSTITU-
TIONUM LIBRI SEPTEM PROXIME CASTIGATI, ET AUCTI. Venice: Aldus, 1535.
With the woodcut Aldine device on the title page and final page. Very good in a
completely original somewhat darkened contemporary limp vellum binding with overlapping
edges and a spine liner of 15 th -cent. manuscript on vellum. The title is handlettered
across the top of the spine and also vertically down the spine, which also has an
early printed library label affixed across the bottom. There are random ownership notes
on the inner vellum binding fold-overs and a minute ownership signature on the title page
beneath the printer’s device. Underlinings and contemporary marginal additions
throughout give clear evidence of a careful perusal of the text. The contents consist of:
De Ira Dei Liber I., De Opificio Dei Liber I., Epitome in libros sues, liber acephalos.,
Phoenix., Carmen de dominica resurrection., ITEM Index in eundem rerum omnium.,
and TERTULLIANI liber apologeticus cum indice. This is the second Aldine edition. The

first, in 1515, did not contain the Tertulliani. Lactantius was a fourth century Christian
apologist. He was the first to compose his works in Latin and is often referred to as the
“Christian Cicero” because of his elegant style. His works were widely read in the 16 th -
century, the most significant being the Divinarum Institutionum, written between 303 and
311, which was intended to point out the futility of pagan beliefs and to establish the
reasonableness and truth of Christianity. [Renouard 113,2] $1,200.00
The Lady Chatterley decision signed by the presiding judge
56. [Lawrence, D. H.] Frederick vanPelt Bryan. GROVE PRESS. INC. AND
READERS’ SUBSCRIPTION, INC. PLAINTIFFS against ROBERT K.
CHRISTENBERRY, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS POSTMASTER OF THE CITY OF NEW
YORK, DEFENDANT. OPINION. United States District Court. Southern District of
New York. Civil 147-87. July 21, 1959. Very good in stapled printed wrappers.
District Judge Bryan’s important opinion in this case established the present understanding
of American obscenity law ensuring that sexual material with even a small
measure of social value would enjoy First Amendment protection. He based his decision
on the arguments of Charles Rembar, a member of the Grove Press defense team, which
offered a new interpretation of Justice Brennan’s opinion in Roth v. United States, that
had introduced the redeeming-social-value test for obscenity. A landmark in American
jurisprudence, signed by Judge Bryan on the inside of the front wrapper and dated June
21, 1959. Note: This copy is not to be confused with the reprint, issued in the exactly
same format by The Readers’ Subscription, which is identical except for four lines
printed on the rear wrapper: “Reprinted and distributed by / THE READERS’
SUBSCRIPTION / 59 Fourth Avenue / New York 3, N.Y.” $300.00
Le Pois, Antoine. DISCOURS SUR LES MEDALLES ET GRAVURES ANTIQUES, ,
PRINCIPALEMENT ROMAINES. See item No. 69.
57. Malamud, Bernard. THE NATURAL. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company,
1952. Very good in the original reddish brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. There is a
barely perceptible stain to the lower portion of the rear board, otherwise a nice clean,
tight copy in a pictorial dust jacket that displays some modest rubbing and wear and,
more significantly, a light red stain to the lower rear panel corresponding to where the
cloth once bled. Malamud's first book, and a high-spot of sports-based fiction. $1,500.00
58. Malamud, Bernard. HOLOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED. Dated February 5,
1971, with a Gramercy Park return address. A thank you note to the editor, Byron
Dobell, for the loan of a book by Rilke with the admonition “don’t fret if (it) doesn’t
come back for a while. It should before summertime or on demand.” Signed, Bernard.
$75.00
59. [Melville, Herman] POEMS. New York: The Century Magazine. Vol. XLIV, No.
1, May, 1892. Very good in illustrated wrappers, with portions missing at top and bottom
of the spine. Pages 104-105 print poems by Herman Melville with an Introduction by
Arthur Stedman which serves as an obituary notice for Melville who had died the
previous September. We had always understood that Melville had been completely
forgotten as a literary figure and that his death had drawn very little notice, however
Stedman reports that “it was the signal for an outpouring of articles on the life and
writings of an author whose vogue had temporarily subsided, partly through his own self-

seclusion.” The poems printed here, Art, Monody, The Night March, The Weaver, and
Lamia’s Song, were selected from Melville’s last two privately printed books, John Marr
and Other Sailors (1888) and Timoleon (1891,) both limited to 25 copies, and were the
first selections from these books to receive wider publication. $50.00
60. Menashe, Samuel. THE MANY NAMED BELOVED. With a foreword by
Kathleen Raine. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1961. Fine in a fine dust jacket, The
poet’s first book. $200.00
61. Meredith, George. MODERN LOVE. With Foreword by E. Cavazza. Portland:
Thomas B. Mosher, 1891. This is copy number 293 of the Small Paper Edition limited to
400 copies. An about-fine copy with very slight shelf wear and some light foxing. The
printed folded-around dust jacket is lightly sunned. However, this copy has the rare
second dust jacket, made of a thin Japan-like paper, printed MODERN LOVE on the front
panel. This outer jacket is darkened, especially on the spine, and has a one-inch chip at
the top of the spine and shallow chipping along the upper edge. $125.00
62. Merriman, Henry Seton [Hugh Stowell Scott] WITH EDGED TOOLS. London:
Smith, Elder, & Co., 1894. Three volumes. With 10 pages of publisher’s advertisements
at the end of Vol. I; 4 pages at the end of Vol. II and 2 pages at the end of Vol. III. Very
good in the publisher’s original cloth binding, showing significant shelf wear. A wellregarded
novel of the exploration and exploitation of Africa, considered to be a precursor
of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. [Sadleir 1733, Wolff 4778] $200.00
One of 75 exemplaires sur Velin with an inscription by Morpeau
63. Morpeau, Louis, Editor. ANTHOLOGIE D’UN SIÈCLE DE POÉSIE HAÏTIENNE
1817 – 1925. Avec une etude sur la Muse haïtienne d’expression française et une etude
sur la Muse haitienne d’expression creole. Les morceaux choisis de chaque auteur sont
precedes de notices bibliographiques, critiques et biographiques. Preface de M. Fortunat
Strowski, Professeur a la Sorbonne. Paris: Éditions Bossard, 1925. One of 75
exemplaires sur Velin with a four-line personal inscription by Morpeau dated 6 Avril
1926. Near fine in printed wrappers. The right edges are all untrimmed, resulting in the
wrappers and some of the pages
in each signature extending well
beyond the text block on the
fore edge. The wrappers
therefore, front and back, show
some edge tears and minor
losses. Laid in is a printed
invitation for a Cours de M.
Alfred Martineau sur La
Littérature Haïtienne
d’Expression Française 1804-
1925, with Audition de poèmes
de “l’Anthologie d’un Siècle de
Poésie Haïtienne” de M. Louis
Morpeau, at the Collège de
France for Le Mardi 5 Janvier 1926. $375.00

Kelmscott Press
64. Morris, William. THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD. Frontispiece designed by
Edward Burne-Jones and engraved on wood by W. Speilmeyer. Hammersmith:
Kelmscott Press, 1894. Printed in black and red by William Morris using the Chaucer
type. One of 350 copies on paper, bound in limp vellum. In addition to its place in the
Kelmscott Press canon, this work, along with Morris’s pendant, The Well at the World’s
End, both of which Morris created out of his devotion to medieval romances and Norse
traditions, were known to have had a great influence on C. S. Lewis’s Narnia sequence.
The text is crisp and unmarked, with the bookplate of U.S. ambassador and diplomat
Henry Morgenthau. The original stiff vellum binding shows light shelf dusting and the
faint outline of a small ‘star’ shelf sticker on the lower spine. The ties are clipped, front
and back. [Peterson A27] $3,950.00
“My respects to the woodchuck”
65. Murdoch, Iris. HOLOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED. Postmarked at Boston, Oct.
23, 1950 and addressed to Professor & Mrs. Haight / Dept. of English Literature / Yale
University / New Haven / Conn. She thanks them for their advice about the subway to
Harvard and the night train to Washington and for their kind hospitality at Yale, and then
offers “My respects to the woodchuck – I’m sorry we didn’t meet!” Professor Gordon
Haight specialized in Victorian literature, authored a biography of George Eliot, and was
editor of the nine-volume Yale edition of George Eliot’s letters. A nice early note, dated
well before her first novel appeared, and signed in full. $125.00
66. Nothomb, Amélie. HYGIÈNE DE L’ASSASSIN. Paris: Albin Michel, 1992. Fine
in printed wrappers with the publisher’s wrap-around band stating: Prix Alain-Fournier /
Prix René Fallet. This is a review copy of the author’s first novel, with “SP” embossed
on the rear wrapper. Hygiène de l’Assassin concerns a young woman journalist who gets
a plum assignment to interview an elderly and reclusive Nobel Prize-winning novelist
with rather austere views of women, such as that they should be killed before reaching
puberty. When the novelist is found dead shortly after the interview, the journalist
becomes the prime suspect. Although it has not yet been translated into English, it was
made into a film written and directed by François Ruggieri in 1999, and into an opera
with music and lyrics by the Belgian composer Daniel Schell that premiered in Lille on
November, 15, 1995.
Amélie Nothomb has become a literary phenomenon in the French-speaking world but
is still little known in the U. S. and the U. K. She is perhaps best known for her 1999
novel Stupeur et tremblements (Fear and Trembling,) which was made into the wonderful
2003 film directed by Alain Corneau and featuring Sylvie Testud as a young woman
who, like the author, was raised in Japan as a child of Belgian diplomats, becoming fluent
in the language and enamored of the Japanese culture. In her twenties, she decides to
return to Japan to work as a translator for an international trading company and the film
becomes a dissection of the ritually abusive treatment that she receives from everyone in
the corporate hierarchy. Her agony is due to her inability to understand the reasons for
this despite her affinity for everything Japanese and every effort she makes to ingratiate
herself only serves to make her treatment harsher. Although being a review copy, this is
likely a second printing with the copyright date of 1992 but the impression date given as
avril 1993. $150.00

The first numismatics book with
illustrations of coins
67. [Numismatics] Fulvio, Andrea.
ILLUSTRIUM IMAGINES. Rome:
Jacopo Mazzocchi, 1517. Considered the
second book to be devoted to
numismatics and the first to show
illustrations of coins. Small 8vo. An
attractive copy in 18 th -century Italian
vellum with original hand lettering on the
spine. The well-known title page within
its woodcut border is here trimmed and
mounted. The present copy has 119 (of
120) leaves, lacking 2D4 with its two
portraits, that is provided in facsimile laid
in. The portrait space on the recto of D2
(folio XVIII) is blank, as in all copies.
This copy has an additional leaf following
the title page, apparently added at the
time of the present binding, with a
manuscript copy of the colophon
information that appears on the last page
of the text: mperatorum, et illustrium
Virorum ac Mulierum vultus ex antiquis
nomismatibus expressi : emenda tum
correptumq. Opus per Andream Fulvium, diligentissimum Antiquarium. Impressum
Romae apud Jacobum Mazochium, Rom. Achad. Bibl. Anno MDXVII. Approximately a
third of the coin images and circular inscriptions are based on actual examples seen by
Fulvio, the rest are purely imaginary. The striking images and their elaborate frames
were long thought to be by the Venetian artist Ugo de Carpi but recent scholarship
indicates they might be by Giovanni Battista Palumba, a member of the artistic circle of
Pope Leo X. The colophon date is given here as XV November, as in almost all copies,
although at least one is known to have an earlier date, VII November. In Christian
Dekesel’s (1997) census of copies in known collections, besides the single copy with the
VII date, there are 6 with the XV date and another 18 which have not been examined.
Presumably the present copy was not included in the 25 known to Dekesel. In addition,
there is a record of one copy known to be printed on vellum, from the Henry E.
Huntington collection (the Hoe copy,) that was auctioned at the Anderson Gallery in New
York in 1917 for $375.00. John Cunnally, in his 1999 book, Images of the Illustrious:
The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance, writes: “Beginning in 1517, with the
publication of Andrea Fulvio's Illustrium Imagines, the coins themselves were joined by
another kind of object that could be collected, circulated, exchanged, and given away,
and which seemed to gush forth from its own perennial vein - the numismatic book.”
[Numismatics in the Age of Grolier p. 18; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 203; Dekesel p.378]
$5,750.00
68. [Numismatics] Occo, Adolph. IMPP. ROMANORUM NUMISMATA A
POMPEIO MAGNO AD HERACLIUM. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1579. A very
good copy in contemporary limp vellum, hand lettered on the spine, and with what

appears to be an early hand-drawn ownership library insignia
on the front panel. There are still remnants of the upper and
lower leather ties on the front and rear panel fore edges. The
vellum shows some darkening and age indications, particularly
at the spinal extremities, but the binding is firm and intact.
The text is very clear, with no foxing or markings except for a
hand-written ownership name on the front blank and a19 th -
century Paris bookseller’s label, Librairie Ancienne Pierre
Mahé, on the front end paper. Occo’s title translates as
“Coins of the Roman Emperors from Pompey to Heraclius”
and represents the culmination of the ‘scientific approach’ to
numismatics that began in the mid 16 th -century with Enea Vico. Each entry simply gives
a brief description along with the obverse and reverse legends and there are no
illustrations in the text. Expanded editions of the Numismata appeared in 1601, 1683,
and 1730, and Occo’s research proved useful well into the second half of the 19 th -
century. [Numismatics in the Age of Grolier p. 58; Voet 1760; Dekesel p. 672]
$2,000.00
69. [Numismatics] Le Pois, Antoine. DISCOURS SUR LES MEDALLES ET
GRAVURES ANTIQUES, PRINCIPALEMENT ROMAINES. Plus, une Exposition
particuliere de quelque planches ou tables estans sur la fin de ce livre, esquelles sont
monstrees diverses Medalles & graveures antiques, rares, & exquises. Paris: Mamert
Patisson, 1579. Quarto, with the Frontispiece portrait of the author, and 20 numismatic
plates (*, A-I, K-N, a-f) with multiple subjects by Pierre Woeiriot. There are woodcuts in
the text and there are 4 full-page illustrations of medailles ‘monstrees diverses,’ Mercury,
Priapus, Pomona, and Hermaphrodite. The plate of Priapus is intact, and uncommon
thus. A superb copy in 18 th -century morocco gilt with leather lettering piece, front joint
delicate. The text is crisp and unmarked with no foxing. Dekesel identifies six variant
issues, no precedence determined. The present copy corresponds to variant 5, having the
portrait of the author on a separate leaf, and issued without a colophon. With the
armorial bookplate of Wilmot, Earl of Lisburne, in the Kingdom of Ireland, who,
incidentally, was the 5 th -great grand-father of Princess Diana. [Numismatics in the Age
of Grolier p. 54; Harvard/ Mortimer-French 350; Dekesel p.552] $7,500.00
70. [Numismatics] Simon, James. AN ESSAY TOWARDS AN HISTORICAL
ACCOUNT OF IRISH COINS AND OF THE CURRENCY OF FOREIGN MONIES IN
IRELAND. With an Appendix Containing Several Statures, Proclamations, Patents, Acts
of State, and Letters relating to the Same. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell for the Author,
1749. There are eight full-page plates showing various coins mentioned in the text. With
the contemporary ownership signature of Chas. Clarke on the title page. He has also
added marginal notes throughout the text, expanding on the coin descriptions, and, in
addition, has keyed page numbers to most of the coins illustrated in the plates. Attached
at the rear is a two-page ALS from Clarke to a Dr. Giffard, relating to the descriptions in
the text. A Rev. Giffard appears in the subscriber list. At the bottom of p.2 of the Clarke
ALS, a later hand has written: “The original letter of Ch. Clarke - whose Autograph
appears on the Title, to Dr. Giffard. The Book itself was bought at the Sale of the Library
of John Townley the Celebrated Antiquarian.” There appear to be two bookplates on
the front end paper, one with the motto of the Order of the Garter and the depiction of a
garter with a crown at the top (but no ownership name,) and the second, beneath but

hidden, presumably belonging to Charles Clarke or to John Townley. An important
source of data on early Irish coinage which has recently been issued in a reprint edition.
The text is complete and in very good condition but the calf binding has deteriorated with
both front and rear boards detached. $375.00
71. Oe, Kenzaburo. JAPAN, THE AMBIGUOUS, AND MYSELF THE NOBEL PRIZE
SPEECH AND OTHER LECTURES. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1995. Fine in a fine
dust jacket. Signed by Oe on the half-title page in Japanese and English. $125.00
Occo, Adolph. IMPP. ROMANORUM NUMISMATA. See item No. 68.
72. Osborne, John. THE ENTERTAINER. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. Fine in
light blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, in a fine dust jacket featuring the well-known
photograph by Tony Armstrong Jones of Sir Laurence Olivier in the title role. Osborne’s
second play. $75.00
73. Paz, Octavio. LA ESTACIÓN VIOLENTA. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura
Económica, 1958. Fine in light tan cloth with dark gilt lettering and design, in an
attractive near-fine light gray dust jacket, printed in green and black, with light wear at
the extremities of the spine. Issued as number 42 in the publisher’s Letras Mexicanas
series and one of only 2,000 copies. $175.00
74. [Poe, Edgar Allan] Mary E. Phillips. EDGAR ALLAN POE THE MAN. With a
Foreword by James H. Whitty. Two volumes. Chicago: The John C. Winston Co., 1926.
Fine in dark blue cloth with exceptionally bright lettering on the front panel and spine.
The edges of volume I are lightly spotted but otherwise the text of both volumes appears
to be fresh and unread. The dust jackets are both fine with no chips or tears but with
somewhat darkened spines. A heavily illustrated account of Poe’s life which functions
more as a pictorial diary of almost every day in his life than as a standard literary
biography. $175.00
75. Poole, Ernest. HIS FAMILY. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. About
fine in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and design on the front panel and spine, but
lacking the scarce dust jacket. Still, a worthy copy of the first Pulitzer Prize novel, in a
firm square binding with an especially bright front panel and no markings in the text. An
eight-page section of the publisher’s advertisements is included in the rear. $375.00
The first English-Portuguese dictionary
76. [Portuguese] [Justice, Alexander] A. J. A COMPLEAT ACCOUNT OF THE
PORTUGUEZE LANGUAGE: BEING A COPIOUS DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH
WITH PORTUGUEZE AND PORTUGUEZE WITH ENGLISH. TOGETHER WITH A
EASY AND UNERRING METHOD OF ITS PRONUNCIATION BY A DISTINGUISHED
ACCENT, AND A COMPENDIUM OF ALL THE NECESSARY RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
AND ORTHOGRAPHY DIGESTED INTO A GRAMMATICAL FORM. London: Printed by R.
Janeway for the Author, 1701. Folio, very good in contemporary mottled calf which has
recently been professionally repaired. The near contemporary hand-written paper spine
label uses the spelling “Portuguese.” With both the half-title and title pages printed in red
and black. The pages are not numbered and the signatures are re-used: (i-iv) half-title,
blank, title, blank; To the Reader. a2, verso of a(2) blank; Vocabularium Anglo-

Lusitanicum. A2-I2, K2-U2, X2-Z2, Aa2-Ii2, Kk2-Uu2, Xx2-Zz2, Aaa2-Ccc2;
Vocabularium Lusitano-Anglicanum. Aa2-Ii2, Kk2-Uu2, Xx2-Zz2, Aaa2-Iii2, Kkk2-
Uuu2, Xxx2-Zzz2, Aaaa (verso blank); Grammatica Anglo-Lusitanica. Aaaa(2)-Kkkk2;
An Appendix of the Forms of Writing, Commonly used in Correspondence among them in
the following manner. Ddd2-Fff2. Note on the final 2 leaves: ‘Fff”(1) is denoted as ‘Ff’
and the final leaf, Fff(2) is missing in this copy and replaced by a photocopy of Fff(2)
recto (the final page is blank.) With considerable browning, foxing and light damp stains
at the margins and at the edges of many leaves throughout. But all of the existing text is
intact and readable. This is the first English-Portuguese dictionary and also the earliest
compilation of Portuguese grammar printed in England. Provenance: Contemporary
ownership signature, George Dawson, on title page. Scarce. $1,350.00
77. [Portuguese] Natividade, Francisco da. LENITIVOS DA DOR PROPOSTOS AO
AUGUSTO, EPODEROSO MONARCHA EL REY D. PEDRO II. NOSSO SENHOR, E
applicados aos leaes Portuguezes no justificado sentimento da intempestiva morte da
Serenissima Rainha, & Senhora nossa A SENHORA D. MARIA SOFIA ISABELLA. Lisboa:
Na Officina de Miguel Deslandes, 1700. A fine large margined folio copy in somewhat
darkened contemporary limp vellum, hand lettered on the spine, with a small portion of
the front and rear panels worn away on the lower forward edges. The text is bright and

without any ownership marks or foxing, but some dog-eared preliminaries. There are a
number of elegant half-page woodcut designs throughout the text as well as chapter
heading and final vignettes. The title is difficult to translate but seems to be close to the
meaning: alleviations, or assuagements, of pain, specifically pain or suffering caused by
the death of a loved one. The text consists of a long series of structured and stylized
short ‘lenitive’ sentiments addressed to the Portuguese monarch, Pedro II, for his
assuagement on the recent death of his queen, Maria Sofia Isabella. A major portion is
devoted to an elaborate alphabetically-based listing of the various experiences of life and
the need to celebrate the joyous portions as well as suffer the inevitable vicissitudes. The
extensive marginal print notations throughout indicate that these sentiments, embodied in
allusions and quotations, are drawn principally from biblical, but also from classical and
contemporary European history and thought. We may well sense that this entire exercise
functions as an elaborate conceit on the part of the author, a Carmelite friar, to
demonstrate his own broad humanistic learning. This title is quite scarce with OCLC
recording only two copies in the U.S. $1,450.00
78. [Pound, Ezra] POETRY A MAGAZINE OF VERSE. Vol. II, No. 1, April 1913.
Fine in illustrated wrappers, partially uncut. Contains Ezra Pound’s Contemporania, a
group of 12 poems, most of which were later published in book form in Lustra. Included
are three of Pound’s best-known lyrics, Dance Figure, A Pact, and In a Station of the
Metro. Also containing The Grey Rock by William Butler Yeats, which was
simultaneously published in The British Review in London. [Gallup C76] $100.00

79. [Pound, Ezra] TA HIO THE GREAT LEARNING. Newly rendered into the
American Language by Ezra Pound. London: Stanley Nott, 1936. Fine in bright yellow
paper covered boards with lettering and design on the front panel printed in black. In a
near fine dust jacket, slightly darkened on the spine but with no chips or tears. Issued as
number II in the publisher’s Ideogramic Series edited by Ezra Pound. The first British
and first hard covered edition. [Gallup A28b] $200.00
Steesed?
80. Powell, Anthony. A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1951. The first American edition of the first novel in Powell’s A Dance
to the Music of Time series, with an extraordinary enclosed TLS from Powell, dated 14
May 1951, commenting on concerns that the novel might be too ‘English’ for American
readers and mentioning his early plan for continuing volumes. In a hand-written postscript,
he asks his American correspondent, who had been at Princeton, “I wonder if you
knew Scott Fitzgerald at Princeton. I met him in Hollywood, and am a great admirer of
Gatsby.” This book belonged to American architect and poet Edward Steese and has his
elegant ex-libris on the front endpaper. Steese has written, in ink, his name and date,
1951, at the top of front free endpaper, and beneath, “A very remarkable book.” Below
this, he attached Powell’s mailing envelope, with typed address, to the endpaper as well.
Besides Powell’s letter, he has included a carbon of his earlier letter to Powell, dated May
1 st , 1951, and also a carbon of his subsequent reply to Powell, dated May 26, 1951. All
three letters, folded and inserted into Powell’s envelope, make up the complete
correspondence; if Powell ever replied to Steese’s second letter, it is not present here.
The Steese – Powell correspondence is quite interesting in itself and has to be briefly
outlined. Steese begins, “I have just read your book “A Question of Upbringing” with
great delight, having decided after reading an only moderately favorable review that it
was just the kind of book I might have written. But I should not have done anything as
good, for your book is quite unique in its detachment . . . picturing so perfectly the
association and disintegration of youthful friendships . . . Nothing so good, of the sort,

has ever been done before – though there is really nothing with which to compare it.”
Presuming a similar milieu, mentioning knowing two editors at Scribner’s, and having
published poems in the London Mercury “when I was still an undergraduate - not in
England, but Princeton,” he undoubtedly encouraged Powell’s reply: “I am delighted that
you should have enjoyed the book, because even on this side some of the reviewers
described it as ‘very English’ and, although personally I think the things it deals with are
common to all countries and societies, I was not sure whether the idiom might not be
obscure when transplanted. There are to be at least four more volumes, and others may
be necessary to clear up some of the situations.” Steese’s responding letter to Powell
dismisses Fitzgerald, “As to Scott Fitzgerald, he graduated from Princeton just before I
went there in 1920, and he was not thought to have brought credit on the University or his
own generation” and then goes on to suggest that Powell not write any further volumes “I
do not think you should continue it into several volumes (or maybe more). It is just right
as it is and it is complete. I would much
rather speculate about the future of your
young men than to know what happened to
them. This suggestion is, I know, none of my
business – but I still hope you will leave a
perfect creation just as it is.” Later, in 1977,
Steese added a pencil note above his 1951 “A
very remarkable book” to the effect that the
rest of the volumes had bored him. (Since
Powell later described his memorable 1937
lunch meeting with Fitzgerald in Hollywood
at some length in his memoir, Faces in My
Time, he was not likely to have been
persuaded.) Edward Steese seems to have had
an admirable career as an advocate for
architectural preservation, but nonetheless, we
would like to suggest a neologism, to steese:
To offer unsolicited but well-meaning advice
that, if taken, would be detrimental to the
furtherance of a creative endeavor.
Except for all of the additions listed above,
the book itself is about fine in dark blue cloth with silver spine lettering. The only
portion of the original dust jacket present is the Henry Lamb portrait of Powell from the
rear panel that Steese had cut out and laid into the book. We have additionally supplied a
full dust jacket from another copy, in very good condition. $3,250.00
81. Powell, Anthony. THE ACCEPTANCE WORLD. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Cudahy, 1955. An about-fine copy in dark-green paper covered boards with a black cloth
spine lettered in brilliant silver. The lower corners are slightly bumped and there is mild
discoloration in the middle of the front panel. The text is crisp and unmarked. The dust
jacket has no chips or tears and only the slightest sunning on the spine which is typical on
this title. The third novel in Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time although there is no
mention of the series title on the jacket or in the book. The early novels are becoming
more and more uncommon and this is a much better copy than generally found. $200.00

Pulp Fiction
82. [Powell, Dawn] MISS LOCHINVAR IN ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY. Vol.
CLXV, Number 2. New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, December 13, 1924.
Very good in illustrated wrappers, with some edge wear and missing the upper and lower
portions of the spine. Dawn Powell’s short story, Miss Lochinvar, appears on pages 304
– 310. Powell’s early magazine appearances have never been completely unearthed
because she is said to have used many unrecorded pseudonyms and wrote and reviewed
widely in a variety of fields. This story appeared shortly before her first novel Whither
(see below.) $45.00
Whither
83. Powell, Dawn. WHITHER. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1925. Dawn
Powell’s rarely found first novel which she later always insisted be removed from the
listings of her published works. Very good in the publisher’s dark blue cloth binding
with gilt lettering and design on the front panel and spine but lacking the dust jacket. The
spine lettering is quite dull but the names can still be read. Except for a neat
contemporary ownership inscription and address on the front blank there are no markings
in the text which is clear except for a few pages with slightly darkened areas due to early
laid-in place markers. Exceedingly uncommon. We know of only two copies appearing
on the market in the last 10 years. $2,750.00
Signed, in a nice dust jacket
84. [Queen, Ellery] Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. THE CHINESE ORANGE
MYSTERY A PROBLEM IN DEDUCTION. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company,
1934. Very good in red cloth with black lettering and design, in a very good priceclipped
dust jacket that, despite its light fading on the spine, a small triangular chip on the
upper front panel, and a small area of soiling on the rear panel, is rather attractive over
all, especially with the brightly orange colored and heavily stylized design. This copy is
signed by Lee as “Ellery Queen” on the front free endpaper. $1,125.00
85. [Queen, Ellery] Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. THE KING IS DEAD.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. Fine, in red cloth with black lettering and
design and no markings in the text, in a like dust jacket with a brilliant front panel but
slight fading on the spine. $150.00
86. Roth, Philip. LETTING GO. New York: Bantam Books,1963. About fine in
illustrated wrappers. Signed by Philip Roth, dated 2007. The first paperback issue, in
June 1963, of Roth’s second book and first novel. $175.00
87. Roth, Philip. EXIT GHOST. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. As new and signed
by Philip Roth on the title page. $65.00
88. [Sappho] Fulvius Ursinus, Editor. CARMINA NOVEM ILLUSTRIUM FEMIN-
ARUM, SAPPHUS MYRTIDIS PRAXILLÆ ERINNÆ CORINNÆ NOSSIDIS MYRUS
TELESULLÆ ANYTÆ. ET LYRICORUM ALCMANIS IBYCI STESICHORI ANACREON-
TIS ALCÆI SIMONIDIS BACCHYLIDIS. ELEGIÆ TYRTÆI, & MIMNERMI. BUCOL-
ICA BIONIS & MISCHI. Latino versu à Laurentio Gambara expressa. CLEANTHIS,
MOSCHIONIS, ALIO-rumque Fragmenta nunc primum edita. Antwerp: Christopher

Plantin, 1568. The works of Sappho were widely known and praised by classical authors
but the only portions of her nine books that remain extant today are the fragments that
have survived, for the most part, in quotations used in classical texts to illustrate her
meters or other aspects of her work. Other fragments survive in papyrus and manuscript
form, some comprising as little as one or two words. However, careful scholarship and
occasional new discoveries, beginning at the time of this volume, have enabled classicists
to establish the probable subject contents of each of the books. The first printing of any
part of Sappho's fragments was that of the hymn to Aphrodite in H. Stephanus’s edition
of Anacreon in 1554. The present Carmina Novem Illustrium Feminarum contained the
first printings in Greek of the largest collection of Sappho’s fragments up to that time.
Page 2 has two circular woodcuts by Antoon van Leest representing the sides of a coin
with Sappho’s portrait on the obverse and on the other side, a squid with the Greek
inscription MYTIΛ (Mytilene, the principal city of Lesbos.) Fulvius also prints the
Greek texts of the eight other female poets named on the title page, along with the Greek
texts of lyrical poets Alcmanes, Stesichoros, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides, and
Bacchylides, and the Greek texts of elegiac poets Tyrtaeus and Mimnermus, and the
bucolica in Greek of Bio and Moschus. Also, the Latin translations of Bio by Laurentius
Gambara are printed here for the first time. Beautifully bound in late 17 th -century red
morocco with an elaborate triple gilt border on the front and rear panels, and decorated
gilt spine with a recent lettering piece. There is light rubbing along the upper front and
rear hinges. The text is in excellent condition, with a few contemporary marginal
notations. A scarce title. [Voet (917) lists only nine copies, none in the U. S.] $4,500.00
89. Shaffer, Peter. AMADEUS. London: Andre Deutsch, 1980. A very good copy,
with minor damp staining in a small middle portion of the text, in a fine dust jacket. This
copy has been signed by Shaffer on the front blank, and in addition, has 23-lines of the
text of Salieri’s speech on page 21 marked out in pencil. Also, laid in is a four-sheet
photocopied schematic chart entitled “Amadeus: Music Cues,” listing cues MQ1 through
MQ28, that most likely was used in conjunction with the first performance of the work in
London. $175.00

90. Shakespear, O. (Olivia) THE DEVOTEES. London: William Heinemann, 1904.
Good only in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Olivia
Shakespear’s fifth and penultimate novel, centering on a boy’s lifelong fixation with his
mother who is rather self-involved and occupied in a series of unfulfilling love affairs
including one with his natural father. Despite her attempts to deal with serious themes
and her literary sophistication, the complex family psychological dramas that she set up
were never convincingly resolved which is perhaps why her novels received, at best,
lukewarm reviews and sold rather badly. Because she retained few of her letters or
manuscripts, the details of her life and novelistic intentions are rather sketchy. With the
growing interest around her intimate relationship and long friendship with W. B. Yeats,
and the marriage of her daughter to Ezra Pound, her novels are attracting attention but
none have ever been reprinted and they are all extremely scarce. $250.00
91. Snyder, Gary. RIPRAP. Berkeley: Stooge Magazine No. 5, 1971. A single leaf
broadside that had originally been included as part of Stooge #5, a multi-media boxed
miscellany issued in just 200 copies. The first separate printing of the title poem of
Snyder’s first book. [McNeil A34] $275.00
92. Solano, Solita. THIS WAY UP. New York: G. P.
Putnam’s Sons, 1927. Near fine in red cloth with gilt
lettering and design on the front cover and spine. The text
is crisp with no markings. In a very good dust jacket
showing minor edge wear. The front flap has a fine line
drawing of the author by Eugene McGown (otherwise
unknown?) and the paragraph: “As one of the group of
Americans now writing and living in Paris, Miss Solano in
this, her third novel and her most talented and freest work,
is the first to bring to American prose the modern gallic
touch and flair of the younger French novelists.” The
author was one of the more prominent American women
expatriates who moved to Paris after World War I. Born
Sarah Wilkinson in Troy, N.Y., she changed her name to
Solita Solano, supposedly derived from the name of her
‘Spanish grandmother,’ shortly after moving to New York
City. Solano, then drama editor of The Tribune and a published short story writer, met
Janet Flanner in Greenwich Village in 1918 at a time when both had abandoned
unsuccessful marriages. In 1922 they moved together to Paris and kept an apartment at
36 Rue Bonaparte in the Hotel Saint-Germain-des-Pres until 1939. Solano encouraged
Flanner’s literary efforts, especially the writing of her novel, The Cubical City, which
was published by Putnam’s in 1926, the year after her own first novel. Gradually
Flanner’s career began to eclipse her friend’s as she established herself as Genet, The
New Yorker’s Paris correspondent, and they eventually drifted apart when Solano came
under the influence of Gurdjieff, later becoming his secretary. They are both portrayed as
the journalists, Nip and Tuck, in Djuna Barnes’s 1928 book, Ladies Almanack. The
Flanner-Solano papers deposited at the Library of Congress are often cited as references
to this extraordinary period. Solita Solano died at age 87 in 1975. Her three Putnam’s
novels are extremely difficult to find, and, when found, are usually in deplorable
condition and never with the dust jacket. $1,000.00

Item No. 92

93. Spender, Stephen. COLLECTED POEMS 1928 - 1953. Introduction by the author.
London: Faber and Faber, 1955. Fine in a like dust jacket. Inscribed by Spender on the
half-title page to the Victorian literature critic Clyde de L. Ryals and his wife. Inserted is
an additional white slip of paper with Stephen Spender’s address written in his hand and
Ryals’ ownership signature is on the front end paper. $375.00
Sunday Morning
94. [Stevens, Wallace] POETRY A MAGAZINE OF VERSE. Vol. VII, No. II,
November 1915. This issue contains the first appearance in print of one of Stevens’s
major poems, Sunday Morning (5 stanzas only.) Stevens had submitted the complete
eight stanza poem but the editor, Harriet Monroe, was willing to print only five that she
selected, due to space considerations. Stevens insisted that the five stanzas should then
be ordered I, VIII, IV, V, and VII, because that order would then be necessary to the
idea. In addition, Stevens agreed to a substitute line in stanza V because Monroe had
questioned the meaning. Edelstein’s notes go over the correspondence in detail. Very
good, but with the spine perished and the front wrapper detached. [Edelstein C47]
$50.00
95. Supervielle, Jules. PREMIERS PAS DE L’UNIVERSE CONTES. Paris: Gallimard,
1950. Very good in the publisher’s decorated cloth binding with nrf end papers, front
and back. This is no. 823 of the cinquante, hors commerce copies, numbered 788 to 837
on vélin. $100.00
96. Teasdale, Sara. THE COLLECTED POEMS. With a frontispiece photographic
portrait of the author by Nickolas Muray. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937.
A near fine copy in lightly dusted green cloth but with brilliant gilt lettering panels on the
front cover and spine. The dust jacket has a bright front panel but is lightly faded on the
spine which has very slight wear at the top. $75.00
TLS, signed Eudo, with an eight stanza typed poem
97. Welty, Eudora. TLS, WITH ENCLOSED TYPED POEM. A two-page letter to her
close friend, Willie Spann, in Jackson, Mississippi, along with an enclosed two-page
typed poem with hand corrections to the first and last stanzas. The letter is undated but
the mailing envelope is postmarked New York, N.Y., June 29, 1949. Eudora Welty spent
that summer in Manhattan staying in “a little sublet” at 31 Gramercy Park and making
plans for a trip to Paris. Her letter begins with bemused quotations of two poems, To My
Father and The Vampire Heart, that she has found in a book by a May. M. Duffee, of
Washington, D.C. (sic), “that you would read aloud so giftedly,” then catches up on
recent news with her friend at home in Mississippi. The enclosed poem, on a separate
sheet, is headed Gramercy Park by May M. Fluffee, and is, at once, a deft parody on the
naïve poet who has so intrigued her, but, also, a delightful appreciation of the beautiful
and historic Manhattan survival for which, sixty years later, one still needs a key to enter.
As in her last stanza: “I wish beautiful Gramercy Park were free to all, / And not
surrounded by spikes so tall. / Those on the outside can only admire it. / Still, it is nice to
have it private.” In her letter, she regrets not being able to send Willie a photo of May M.
Duffee “which is the frontispiece of the book which is borrowed” but, thanks to the
Internet, we have been able to obtain a copy of the book and it will be included with this
item. The letter and hand addressed envelope (which has been carelessly opened) are in
very good condition with folds. J. A. Cuddon, in A Dictionary of Literary Terms, has a

penetrating paragraph on the definition of parody: “Parody is difficult to accomplish well.
There has to be a subtle balance between close resemblance to the ‘original’ and a deliberate
distortion of its principal characteristics. It is, therefore, a minor form of literary art which is likely
to be successful only in the hands of writers who are original and creative themselves. In fact, the
majority of the best parodies are the work of gifted writers.” Eudora Welty’s poem is a
wonderful example of this “minor form of literary art” and, to our best knowledge,
previously unknown. $2,850.00
98. Whitman, Walt. FEUILLES D’HERBE. Traduction intégrale d’après l’edition
définitive par Léon Bazalgette avec deux portraits de l’auteur. Paris: Mercure de France,
1909. Volume I (of 2) only. This copy has an inscription, in English, from the translator
to Henry Bryan Binns, “in true comradeship.” An interesting association copy, as Binns
was the author of A Life of Walt Whitman, published in England in 1905. Very good in
printed yellow wrappers, with light foxing throughout. The text is largely unopened.
The familiar Samuel Hollyer portrait of the young Walt Whitman in vol. I, complete with
tissue guard, is opposite page 48 which here is the beginning of Chant de moi-mème. The
first French translation of the complete Leaves of Grass. $250.00
99. [Yeats, W. B] Ganconagh. JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA. London: T. Fisher
Unwin, 1892. Published as No. 10 in the Pseudonym Library series. The third edition, as
printed on the title page. This copy has an inscription from Elizabeth Corbet Yeats on the
front free endpaper: E. H. Maclean / from / The Author’s sister. / Feb 1895. Also, W. B.
Yeats is written out on the title page to the right of “Goncanagh,” presumably by ECY.
Very good only, in darkened cloth with heavy spotting on the front panel and foxing on
the front and rear endpapers. The original edition was published in 1891. Wade states
that there was a second edition, issued also in 1891, and a third edition, “advertised” in
1894. An early title seldom found with an explicit Yeats association. [Wade 4] $200.00
100. Yeats, W. B. THE COLLECTED POEMS. New York: The Macmillan Company,
1933. Very fine in dark blue cloth with a design by Charles Ricketts blind stamped on
the front cover and brilliant gilt lettering between horizontal stripes on the spine. The
text is clear and unmarked. The dust jacket with its art deco lettering and design is quite
striking and unusual for a book by Yeats, with both front and rear panels free of chips or
tears, but with a slightly sunned spine that has shallow chipping at the top not affecting
any text. There is a frontispiece portrait of Yeats taken from a 1907 Augustus John

painting. This was the first edition of the Macmillan Collected Poems, preceding the
London edition by two weeks, and with it, Yeats initiates the form in which he chose to
present his collected lyrical and narrative poetry that continues to the present. Quite
scarce in such excellent condition. [Wade A171] $500.00
101. Zagajewski, Adam. MYSTICISM FOR BEGINNERS. Translated from the Polish
by Clare Cavanagh. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1997. Fine in green printed
wrappers. A one-page publisher’s bio sheet is laid in. The poet’s third volume of poetry
in English translation. This copy has been inscribed by Zagajewski on the title page.
$100.00
Fine Arts
102. [COBRA] Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo) CORNEILLE ABOUT
COBRA. Translated transcript of an interview conducted by Christian Bussy June 27,
1967 on Radiodiffusion-Televison Belge. New York: Lefebre Gallery, 1967. Fine in

illustrated wrappers, which comprise an original extended colored lithograph by
Corneille measuring 7-1/4 x 21-3/4 inches with two vertical folds. Corneille was a cofounder
of COBRA in Holland in 1948. “We were saturated – even fed up. Mondrian
and geometric art had imprisoned all artistic life in Holland. We were boxed in by
squares. We had only one desire: to get out of this too tight corset and start a gigantic
disorder. We hated the rigidity of it all, especially as everything was so uncritically and
so totally accepted. In our rebellion against it, we proclaimed our love for children’s
drawings and for the work of the insane.” An exhibition catalog for Corneille’s show at
the Lefebre Gallery from December 5 through December 30, 1967 with four additional
monochrome illustrations of Corneille’s work in the text. Quite scarce. $225.00
103. [Eilshemius] Elshemus, Louis M. (Michel.) SONGS OF SPRING AND
BLOSSOMS OF UNREQUITED LOVE. With 20 original illustrations by the author.
Buffalo: The Peter Paul Book Co., 1895. A stunning copy of one of Eilshemius’ earliest
books. This copy has a full-page personal inscription by Eilshemius on the recto of the
frontispiece: “Per mio amico / Carmine Dalecio / best wishes / of the Poet Painter / Louis
M Eilshemius. / 1931.” The combination of the nature lyrics and art might almost put
one in mind of a late 19 th -century American vision akin to Blake’s. $650.00
104. Fischl, Eric. Edited by Martin Hentschel. THE KREFELD PROJECT. Bielefeld,
Gerrmany: Kerber Verlag, 2003. Very fine in dark-green cloth printed in black, in a like
dust jacket. This copy is signed by Eric Fischl on the half-title page. A catalogue to
accompany Fischl’s exhibition, entitled The Krefeld Project, held at the Museum Haus
Esters, Krefeld, from October 12, 2003 to January 24, 2004. The bilingual English-
German text includes an introductory note, Eric Fischl: The Klefeld Project, by Robert
Rosenblum and curatorial notes entitled, Stations of a Drama. Eric Fischl’s Kelfeld
Project, by Martin Hentschel. All of the paintings in the Project are reproduced in fullcolor
plates and there are also three full-page plates of three of Fischl’s iconic paintings
from earlier in his career. $275.00
105. Hadid, Zaha M. EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, PROJECTS 1977 – 81. Near fine
in illustrated wrappers. The catalogue consists of numbered sheets loosely inserted into a
folded portfolio. Several of the sheets contain brief introductions to the various projects
by Elia Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas, which include Malevich’s Tektonik, London
1976/77, Museum of the 19 th Century London, 1977/78, and Extension of the Dutch
Parliament, the Hague, 1978/79. This early Hadid publication is very scarce. $450.00
106. Hodgkin, Howard. TWO EXHIBITION PAMPHLETS. London: Arthur Tooth &
Sons Limited, 1962 & 1964. These are the exhibition catalogues for Hodgkin’s first two
one-man gallery shows in London. For 1962 there were 5 monochrome plates, and for
1964 there were 3 monochrome plates as well as a color plate on the front wrapper. Both
very good in illustrated wrappers. $75.00
Signed by Brice Marden
107. [Marden, Brice] Linda Shearer. BRICE MARDEN. New York: The Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, 1975. About fine in illustrated wrappers showing a photograph of
Marden standing to the left of one of his classic three-panel paintings which made up the
bulk of this exhibition. There is a frontispiece color plate of the painting, Pumpkin Plum,
and many monochrome plates and illustrations throughout the text. With an essay, Brice

Marden’s Paintings, by Linda Shearer. One of 2000 copies of the catalogue for the first
major solo museum exhibition of Brice Marden’s paintings, held at the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum in New York, 1975. This copy was signed on the front panel by
the artist at the Guggenheim Museum during the exhibition. Marden was recently given
a major retrospective at MOMA in New York City and at the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art. $575.00
108. Moxon, Joseph. PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE OR PERSPECTIVE MADE EASY.
London: Joseph Moxon, 1670. With 60 engraved plates, two folding, and each with a
reference “eye point.” The moveable stand-up figure with mica “glass” on page XX is
intact. In later (19 th century) marbled boards, leather spine, corners bumped, worn.
$3,500.00

109. [Newman, Barnett] BARNETT NEWMAN A SELECTION 1946-1952. New York:
French and Company, Inc., 1959. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. A 12-page
exhibition catalog for one of Barnett Newman’s early New York shows. There are 3
paintings reproduced in color, including a double-page of Cathedra (1951,) and one fullpage
monochrome drawing. One of the paintings, Onement #1 (1948,) is also shown on
the front wrapper. There is a 2-page essay on Newman’s work by Clement Greenberg as
well as a short poem, On Certain Wits, by Howard Nemerov. $125.00
110. [Piene, Otto] OTTO PIENE. Stuttgart: Galerie Muller, 1963. Near fine in
illustrated wrappers in color. An eight-page catalog for Piene’s exhibit at the Galerie
Muller in March-April of 1963 There are six color reproductions of his work, an artistic
statement beginning “Die Kraft, die die Rasterbilder wirken läßt, ist das Licht . . .”, and a
brief biographical and exhibition history on the inside rear wrapper. $45.00
In the rare dust jacket
111. Rackham, Arthur. THE ARTHUR RACKHAM FAIRY BOOK A BOOK OF OLD
FAVOURITES WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, (1933.) An
about-fine copy in decorated red cloth, in a very good example of the rare dust jacket
which has served to protect the vibrant illustrations on the front panel and spine of the
book. The white dust jacket illustrations, in red and dark blue, are identical to those on
the cloth but inverse in color. There is a color frontispiece and seven other full-page
color illustrations along with many black & white illustrations in the text. The text itself
is crisp and unmarked and partially unopened. The upper edge of the cloth is slightly
worn and there is shallow chipping along the upper edge of the dust jacket front panel
and spine, which is also slightly darkened. A superb production containing 23 familiar
stories. $1,000.00
112. [Rauschenberg, Robert] SIGNED ‘FLAG’ OR BANNER. Bufffalo: Albright-
Knox Art Gallery, 1977. A gold-colored square cotton ‘flag’ or banner, measuring 14-3/4
x 14-3/4 inches, printed in red across the diagonal: “Robert Rauschenberg / Albright-
Knox / September 24, 1977” and given as a memento for guests at “An Evening for
Robert Rauschenberg” sponsored by the Members’ Council of the Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, Saturday, September 24, 1977, on the occasion of the opening of a
Rauschenberg retrospective exhibition at the Gallery. This banner is signed on the
diagonal, “Bob Rauschenberg” in blue ink just above his name. Included is a 4-page
printed announcement for the event, also in red on a gold background, along with an
amateur color photograph of Rauschenberg signing a book at the event. In good
condition, folded in fours, and suitable for framing. $200.00
113. [Rauschenberg, Robert] ROCI. RAUSCHENBERG OVERSEAS CULTURE
INTERCHANGE. National Gallery of Art, Washington and Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1991.
Edited and with an Introduction by Jack Cowart. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. Fine in a
fine dust jacket. $75.00
114. [Schnabel, Julian] JULIAN SCHNABEL WORKS ON PAPER 1976-1992.
Interview by Francesco Clemente. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1993. Fine in
plain white wrappers with a like dust jacket illustrated in color on the front and rear
panels. $75.00

Item No. 111

115. [Southwest Pueblo Art] Julius Gans. Santa Fe: Southwest Arts & Crafts, 1930.
Very good in illustrated wrappers . A 32-page priced listing, illustrated with photographs,
of the Southwest Arts & Crafts gallery’s offerings for 1930 with sections on
Chimayo blankets, Navajo rugs, silver jewelry, decorated knives, belts, baskets, pottery,
moccasins, beadwork, and juvenile cowboy outfits. The “Exquisite Black San Ildefonso
Pottery with dull black designs on glossy black backgrounds, by the renowned Maria,
Tonita, Anna and others,” is highlighted, at prices ranging from $8.00 for water jars,
about 12x9 in., to $3.00 for water jars, about 6x6 in. Scarce. $75.00
Inscribed with a full-page drawing by Art Spiegelman
116. [Spiegelman, Art] Joseph Moncure March. THE WILD PARTY. Drawings by
Art Spiegelman. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. Fine in a like dust jacket. The halftitle
page has a full-page drawing and inscription signed by Spiegelman. $400.00
117. Verneuil, M. P. ÉTOFFES JAPONAISES TISSÉE & BROCHÉES. Quatre-vingts
Planches précédées d’une préface de G. Migeon. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-
Arts, c.1905. A large portfolio with a 12-page folder containing the preface and contents,
and 80 loosely inserted color plates, each mounted within a printed heavy card
stock frame. With the bookplate of the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum. Each
plate card stock mount is stamped on the back in red ink: George Walter Vincent Smith
Collection, Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts. The plates are complete and in fine
condition, in fine mounts with no markings except for the discreet stamps on the rear.
The brown cloth portfolio is in
very good condition, but with
some rubbing to the gilt title
lettering on the front panel, some
light staining and lacking the ties.
$1,200
118. [Vitruvius] Giovanni
Poleni. EXERCITATIONES
VITRUVIANAE VITRUVIANAE
PRIMAE [-TERTIA] HOC EST:
IOANNIS POLENI COMMENTAR-
IUS CRITICUS DE M. VITRUVII
POLLIONIS ARCHITECTI X. LIB-
RORUM EDITIONIBUS, NEC NON
DE EORUNDEM EDITORI-BUS,
Atque de Aliis, qui vitruvium
quocumque modo explicarunt, aut
illustrarunt. Padua and Venice:
Manfrè and Pitteri, 1739-1741.
Three volumes bound in one with
continuous pagination. The
internal titles give 1739 as the date
of vols. I & II, and 1741 for vol.
III. An examination of the
publishing history of Vitruvius,

eginning with the editio princeps by Sulpizio (1486,) and containing Poleni’s
correspondence with Morgagni and reprinting Baldi’s life of Vitruvius, first published in
1612. With title page vignettes, head and tail pieces, initials, and numerous diagrams in
the text (some full-page.) Folio, in near contemporary half calf over boards with some
professional restoration. The text is crisp and free of markings or foxing. Provenance:
Early library stamp of Bibliotheca Bottigeri and modern institutional label. [Millard-
Italian 104] $1,975.00
119. Walkowitz, Abraham. Four large-format Haldeman-Julius publications from the
1940’s and 1950’s, with monochrome plates and each boldly signed across the front
wrapper by the artist: ISADORA DUNCAN IN HER DANCES (1945,) BARNS AND
COAL MINES AROUND GIRARD, KANSAS (1947,) IMPROVISATIONS OF NEW
YORK A SYMPHONY IN LINES (1948,) and ART FROM LIFE TO LIFE (1951.)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications. All in very good to near-fine condition in
paper wrappers showing minor wear. For the four: $200.00
Signed by Wegman with a drawing
120. [Wegman, William] Joan Simon. WILLIAM WEGMAN FUNNEY / STRANGE.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the Addison Gallery
of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 2006. Fine in illustrated
self-wrappers. This copy has a “Funney / Strange” original ink drawing on the half-title
page that is signed, below, by Wegman. This is the first retrospective volume to consider
the artist’s entire career from the 1960s to the 2000s. Joan Simon has written an
Introduction and four essays on Wegman’s career: Eureka 1943-1970, Double Profile
1970-1985, Birch Bay 1985-1996, and Getting into Artforum 1996-2005. There are many
full-page color plates and other illustrations throughout the text, which also includes an
extensive bibliography and exhibition history. $200.00
121. [Xhafa, Sislej] SISLEJ XHAFA. SEE NO EVIL / HEAR NO EVIL / SPEAK NO EVIL.
Milano: Edizione Gabriele Mazzotta, 2004. Fine in stiff glossy wrappers illustrated with
a full wrap-around color photograph of the artist’s installation at Rome’s Instituto
Nazionale per la Grafica, held from December 9, 2003 to February 4, 2004. Inscribed by
Sislej Xhafa on the half-title page. He was born in Kosovo in 1970 and has lived in New
York City since 2000, establishing an international reputation as a performance and
conceptual artist. The 100-page text is completely in Italian, with essays and interviews
by Luigi Ficacci, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Teresa Macri and Edi Muka. There are 50
pages of plates of his work, mostly in color, in additions to illustrations in the text, and a
biography and bibliography. $125.00

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Science, Mathematics, and Medicine
122. Anonymous. ANATOMICAL DIALOGUES; OR, A BREVIARY OF ANATOMY.
WHEREIN ALL THE PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY ARE CONCISELY AND
ACCURATELY DESCRIBED, AND THEIR USES EXPLAINED; BY WHICH THE YOUNG
PRACTIONER MAY ATTAIN A RIGHT METHOD OF TREATING DISEASES, AS FAR AS IT
DEPENDS ON ANATOMY. Chiefly Compiled for the Use of the Young Gentlemen in the
Navy and Army. By a Gentleman of the Faculty. The Second Edition. With Large
ADDITIONS and AMENDMENTS. London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, No. 25,
Paternoster-Row, 1785. There are 10 engraved plates at the rear. Very good in a lightlyrubbed
early 19 th -century half-leather binding with an elegant gilt-decorated spine and
marbled boards. The text is clear and unmarked and remarkably free of foxing. With Sir
John Thorold’s Syston Park library bookplate and below, the monogram book label of
his son, Sir John Hayford Thorold. $650.00
123. Blondel de Saint Aubin, (Guillaume.) TRIGONOMETRIE, GEOMETRIQUE,
ASTRONOMIQUE ET MARITIME. Contenant les Tables des Sinus, Tangentes &
Secantes; celles de leurs Logarithmes; celles des Logarithmes des Nombres absolus,
depuis l'Unité jusqu'à 100000. Celles des Latitudes réduites avec leur usage. Dernière
édition, Corrigée & augmentée d'une Table des Routes pointées jusqu'à 100 Lieuës &
d'une explication de celle des Latitudes réduites, en faveur des Navigateurs. Par J. Le C.
Prêtre & Professeur Royal d'Hydrographie. Au Havre de Grace: Chez P. J. D. G. Faure,
1760. A lovely duodecimo copy bound in contemporary vellum with an uncommonly
fresh text with no markings or foxing. There are 63 pages of introduction and
explanatory material: DE’FINITIONS GEOMETRIQUES ET TRIGONOMETRIQUES Tres-
Nécessaires. Numerous geometric diagrams are included in this section. Followed by a
Table des Sinus, Tangens et Secans (91), Construction et usage de la Table des Routes
pointées (5), Table des Routes Pointees (148), Explication de la Table des Latitudes
réduites (12), Table des Latitudes (31), ending with four pages of the publisher’s
advertisements, last page blank. Guillame Blondel, Ecuyer, Sieur de Saint-Aubin (1625?
– 1694?) was a French mathematician who adapted the new method of logarithms to aid
in navigation. This compilation of readily usable techniques for maritime calculations
proved to be extremely successful and there were at least fifteen editions issued over a
period of more than a century from the first in 1671 to the last in 1783. $425.00
124. Briggs, Henry; John Wallis; Edmond Halley; and Abraham Sharp. MATHEMA-
TICAL TABLES, CONTRIVED AFTER A MOST COMPREHENSIVE METHOD:
VIZ., A TABLE OF LOGARITHMS, FROM 1 TO 10100. London: Printed for R. and
W. Mount and T. Page, in Postern-Row, Tower-Hill, 1717. One folding plate, attached to
page 53. This book is a varied compendium of logarithm and trigonometric tables along
with mathematical essays by John Wallis, Edmond Halley and Abraham Sharp: Title
page [Aa], [Ab blank]; Dedicatory to Mr. Edm. Halley, Savilian Professor of Geometry,
University of Oxford. Dated 1705 and signed Hen. Sherwin [A2]; Preface [A3-4], inserted
leaf recto blank, verso headed “Errors in the Discourses before the Tables.;” Of
Logarithms, their Invention and Use by Dr. John Wallis [pp 1-12]; A most Compendious
and Facile Method for Constructing the Logarithms, Exemplified and Demonstrated
From the Nature of Numbers, Without any Regard to the Hyperbola. by Mr. Edm. Halley

[pp 13-21]; An Easie and Compendious Method of making Logarithms, deduced from
Mr. Halley’s preceding Discourse by Mr. Sharp [pp 22-43]; Of Constructing the Natural
Sines, Tangents and Secants by Mr. Sharp [pp 44-52]; An Easy Quadrature of the Circle,
communicated by Mr. Halley [pp 53-64]; An inserted leaf recto blank, verso an Errata
list for the following Tables. The tables follow with a separate title page with imprint:
London: Printed for Jer. Seller and Cha. Price, at Hermitage-Stairs in Wapping; and John
Senex, next Door to the Fleece-Tavern in Cornhill. 1705. [A4-Z4, Aa4-Pp4]; Some Uses
of the Preceding Tables [pp 1-24, Qq4-Ss4]; Of Compound Interest and Annuities by
Mr. Edm. Halley [pp 25-36, Tt4-Vv2]; The Propositions of Navigation that occur in the
Practice of Sailing by Mercator [pp 37-39. Vv3-Vv4a]; Publisher’s advertisements
[Vv4b.] Very good in a contemporary calf Cambridge binding, front hinge weak, otherwise
firm. The spine has five raised bands within gilt lines and each spine panel stamped
in gold with the Order of the Golden Fleece emblem. The leather lettering piece reads:
BRIGGS’S / MATHEMAT. / TABLES. The text is complete and in very good condition
with no foxing or markings. With the armorial bookplate of “The Hon. George Baillie
Esq. one of the Lords of the Treasury 1724,” and below, the book label of the collector,
Harrison D. Horblit. George Baillie is listed as one of the Lords of the Treasury during
the troubled period of the South Sea Bubble, serving from April 17, 1717 though some
time before May 27, 1725, when a new list appears without his name. Scarce. $1,350.00
125. Cardano, Girolamo. DE SUBTILITATE LIBRI XXI. Basel: Sebastianus
Henricpetri, 1582. Folio in a later vellum binding, author and title hand lettered on spine,
with a woodcut portrait of Cardano
on the title page and many
illustrations and geometric diagrams
in the text. An encyclopedic treatise
on the natural sciences which was
first published in 1550 and became
one of the most widely read
compilations on mathematics,
optics, and various inventions, along
with an admixture of astrology,
alchemy and the occult. Cardano
(1501-1576) became a world
famous physician and
mathematician who also gambled
and occasionally fell out of favor
with the Church authorities. The
text is complete and has the final
colophon leaf with the printer’s device on verso. There is a 1682 monastic ownership
notation on the title which has other early notes as well. A number of leaves show damp
staining at the lower margin and leaves p1 through B4 have repairs at the lower corners,
occasionally with manuscript insertion of missing letters. Woodcut initials have been
excised from several leaves and replaced in facsimile with text on verso supplied in
manuscript. $1,650.00
Herbert Goldstein’s copy
126. Chandrasekhar, S. RADIATIVE TRANSFER. Oxford: The Clarendon Press,
1950. Near fine in a like dust jacket. The binding is firm with bright gilt spine lettering

and design and there are no markings in the text other than the ownership signature of
Herbert Goldstein on the front free end paper, dated New York, Sept. 1950. This volume
presents Chandrasekhar’s important results on energy transfer by radiation in stellar
atmospheres. He won the Nobel Prize in 1983 in recognition of his lifetime of
achievement in the theoretical study of the physical processes crucial to stellar structure
and evolution. A nice association, as Dr. Herbert Goldstein’s much revered textbook,
Classical Mechanics, was also issued in 1950 and there is still a revised version of it in
print. $275.00
127. Courant, Richard and Herbert Robbins. WHAT IS MATHEMATICS? AN
ELEMENTARY APPROACH TO IDEAS AND METHODS. London: Oxford University
Press, 1941. Near fine in a like dust jacket with an ownership signature on the front
endpaper but no other markings in the text. This is a very attractive copy of the first
printing of Courant’s classic exposition that is designed to guide the non-specialist reader
to a genuine understanding and appreciation of modern mathematical methods. $250.00
A rare early scientific piracy
128. Desaguliers, J. T. A SYSTEM OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY PROV’D BY
MECHANICKS, wherein The Principles and Laws of Physicks, Mechanicks,
Hydrostaticks, and Opticks, are
demonstrated and explained at large, by a
great Number of curious Experiments:
With a full Description of the Air-Pump,
and the several Experiments thereon: As
also of the different Species of
Barometers, Thermometers, and
Hydrometers; as shewn at the publick
Lectures in a Course of Mechanical and
Experimental Philosophy. As performed
By J. T. Desaguliers. M. A. F. R. S.
Illustrated with Several Copper Plates.
To which is added, Sir Isaac Newton’s
Colours : The Description of the
condensing Engine, with its Apparatus : And Rowley’s HORARY; a Machine representing
the Motion of the Moon about the Earth ; Venus and Mercury about the Sun, according to
Copernican SYSTEM. London: Printed for B. Creake, at the Bible and Ink-Bottle in
Jermyn Street, St. James’s: J. Sackfield, in Lincolns-Inn-Square: And Sold by W. Mears,
at the Lamb without Temple-Bar, 1719. The ten copper engraved folding plates in the
rear are all present in excellent condition and there are woodcut diagrams scattered
throughout the text..
John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744,) the son of a Huguenot clergyman, was born
in Rochelle, France, but came to England with his family as a boy and was educated at
Christ Church, Oxford. After leaving Oxford, Desaguliers began to lecture on experimental
philosophy (physics) in London and is considered the first person to have done so.
Through his reputation as a lecturer he gained the friendship of Isaac Newton and
obtained a Fellowship in the Royal Society. Following this volume, Desaguliers
published widely, achieving many honors, and is credited with the invention of the
planetarium and with important improvements to the stream engine. Desaguliers was

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also active in the revival of Freemasonry in England in the early 18 th -century and is
sometime referred to as the Father of Modern speculative Freemasonry.
This book may be one of the earliest “piracies” in the post-Newton era of the physical
sciences, having been issued without authorization of the author through an arrangement
of the publisher with a Paul Dawson, who had attended Desaguliers’s lectures and
requested a copy of the lecture notes to help in with his studies. The DNB states that
Desaguliers “disavowed” this edition, but as is evident in his Preface, or Advertisement
to the Reader, added, along with a revised title page, after the original publication, he
apparently came to a satisfactory financial settlement with Mears and Creake. “But as the
Booksellers have made me Satisfaction, and purchased the Copy of me, I have looked
over the whole Book, and corrected every Error therein; because I was unwilling that
those who buy it should find it in any wise imperfect, and desirous that it might be of use
to such as go thro’ Courses of Experimental Philosophy.” This is a rare volume,
preserving the both the unauthorized and authorized title pages and prefaces, retaining
Paul Dawson’s five-page Dedication. In addition, all of the suggested emendations in
Desaguliers’s Errata have been hand written in the text by a contemporary hand. In
quarto, (a4), b4, A-Z4, Aa-Cc4, Dd1. The text is slightly browned with some foxing, but
over all very good, with head and final chapter vignettes. The contemporary
‘Cambridge’ binding has been re-backed, with gilt lettering pieces, but the front and rear
calf boards have been well preserved. $3,250.00
Personally Inscribed by “Ritty” Feynman
129. Feynman, Richard. THE CHARACTER OF PHYSICAL LAW. Cambridge: The
M.I.T. Press, 1983. Paperback reprint. With a personal 1984 inscription signed “Ritty”
Feynman “To my very old friend and Far Rockaway neighbor of over half a century
ago.” Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was notoriously reluctant to sign books, but he
graciously inscribed this copy, using his childhood nickname, for a woman attending one
of his Esalen lectures in California who had grown up in Far Rockaway in the house
directly next door to Feynman’s. She was a few years younger but had known “Ritty”
Feynman well and often recalled for her family his performing magic tricks in her
parent’s living room when they were growing up. From the time he was a young boy, his
father encouraged him to think about how things worked and taught him to frame
questions in simple physical terms. By his last years in high school he had developed a
facility for calculating solutions to physics problems that would have been the envy of
most graduate students. From Far Rockaway High School, he went to M.I.T. and then to
Princeton where he received his Ph.D in physics in 1942. His theoretical work in
quantum electrodynamics and the invention of his “Feynman Diagrams” brought him the
Nobel Prize in 1965.
No other American-born scientist has ever captured the public’s imagination as
Feynman did, from the tales of his participation in the Manhattan Project early in his
career, where he was known for playing the bongos and his ability to pick open the safes
containing classified secrets, through to his work on the Rogers Commission investigating
the causes of the Challenger disaster where he gave his famous public demonstration
showing what happens to an “O-Ring” after being dipped into liquid nitrogen. A
year after this book was inscribed, his autobiographical essays, Surely You’re Joking Mr.
Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character, became a bestseller and confirmed his
popular reputation. We do not know of any other personally inscribed book of
Feynman’s ever appearing for sale. Supporting provenance available. Price on request.

130. Fraenkel, A. (Abraham) SUR LA NOTION D’EXISTENCE DANS LES
MATHÉMATIQUES and SUR L’AXIOME DU CHOIX. Paris: Gauthier-Villars,
Éditeur and Geneve: Georg & Cie, Éditeurs, 1935. Very good in printed wrappers. An
off-print from L’Enseignement Mathématique Nos 1-2, 1935, with “Hommage de
l’auteur” printed at the top. Fraenkel’s major contributions were in the foundations of
axiomatic set theory, where he improved the definitions of Zermelo and, within his axiom
system, he was able to prove the independence of the axiom of choice. His work was
further modified by Skolem to give what is today accepted as the best basis for set theory
and known as the ZFS system, named after Zermelo, Fraenkel and Skolem. $75.00
131. [Fraenkel, A. (Abraham)] ESSAYS ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHE-
MATICS. DEDICATED TO A. A. FRAENKEL ON HIS SEVENTIETH ANIVERSARY. With
a frontispiece photographic portrait of Abraham A. Fraenkel. Edited by Y. Bar Hillel,
E. I. J. Poznanski, M. O. Rabin, and A. Robinson. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1961.
Fine, with an ownership signature on the front end paper, in a like dust jacket. A printed
slip: 1962 / North-Holland Publishing Company / Amsterdam has been tipped onto the
bottom of the title page for foreign distribution. A 2-page Bibliography of A. A. Fraenkel
prefaces the text of contributed papers on Axiomatic Set Theory, Mathematical Logic,
Foundations of Arithmetic and Analysis, and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics.
These include work by P. Bernays, P. Erdös and A. Tarski, R. Carnap, Th. Skolem, and
W. Sierpiński, among many others. $75.00
132. Frege, Dr. G. (Gottlob) FUNCTION UND BEGRIFF. Vortrag gehalten in der
Sitzung vom 9. Januar 1891 der Jenaischen Gesellschaft für Medicin und Naturwissenschaft.
Jena: Verlag von Hermann Pohle, 1891. Near fine in the original gray wrappers
printed in black. The front and rear wrappers have recently been professionally reattached
and there is a small restoration on the upper corner of the front wrapper. The
title page has an ownership signature in ink at the top and several of the text pages have
penciled marginal notations. Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is now acknowledged to have
made the most important advances in logic since Aristotle although his work was slow to
gain understanding and acceptance by his contemporaries. Function und Begriff,
generally translated as Function and Concept, is one of a series of articles that Frege
wrote after his publication of Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik (The Foundations of
Arithmetic, 1884) in which he had put forth the basis of his axiomatic theory of arithmetic
by considering the questions: What are numbers? and What is the nature of arithmetical
truth? These successive papers were written to extend and provide further rigor to the
ideas in the Grundlagen. This paper introduces Frege’s two main innovations since his
major work, the Begriffsschrift of 1879, the notion of ‘sense’ and his ‘Basic Law V,’
both too arcane to explicate in this brief paragraph even were we able. Function und
Begriff is also recognized as being the earliest traceable kernel of the ideas that lead to the
modern formalisms of functional grammars and to the Church and Kleene lambda
calculus of the 1930s that was to play such an important role in the development of the
theory of programming languages. Quite scarce in the original wrappers. $2,250.00
133. [Frege, G. (Gottlob)] ÜBER DIE GRUNDLAGEN DER GEOMETRIE. II.
Leipzig: Verlag von B. G. Teubner, 1906. In the Jahresbericht der Deutschen
Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 15. Band, 7.Heft, July, pp. 377-403. Very good in the
original printed wrappers with a tattered spine and an ownership signature on the first
page of text, but with no other markings. $100.00

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134. Garzoni, Tomaso. L’ HOSPIDALE DE’ PAZZI INCURABILI. NUOVAMENTE
RISTAMPATO, & posto in luce da Tomaso Garzoni da Bagnacauallo. CON TRE
CAPITOLE IN FINE sopra la Pazzia. ALL’ECCELLENTISSIMO MEDICO, ET Filosofo
chiarissimo il Sig. Bernardino Paterno. Venetia: Roberto Meietti, 1601. Originally
published in 1586, this is the first book devoted to classifying and describing different
forms of insanity. In 1600, Thomas Nashe allegedly helped produce The Hospitall of
Incurable Fooles, a translation of this work from the Italian. Small quarto, very good in
modern quarter calf over boards. This edition not in Krivatsy. $875.00
135. Gauss, Carl Friedrich. RECHERCHES ARITHMÉTIQUES. Traduites par A. C.
M. Poullet-DeLisle, Professeur de Mathématiques au Lycée d’Orleans. Paris: Chez
Courcier, Imprimeur – Libraire pour les Mathématiques, 1807. This is the first translation
into a modern European language of Gauss’s famous first book, Disquisitiones
Arithmeticae, originally published in Latin in 1801 when Gauss was 24 years old, and
long considered one of the most brilliant achievements in mathematics. This translation
corrected a number of problems with the text of the original Latin edition while
benefiting from the translator’s careful notes and served to expose Gauss’s work to a
much wider audience. Here Gauss included such important results as his development of
the algebra of congruences, and his proofs of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic and
that it is possible to construct, with ruler and compass, the 17-sided heptadecagon that
was unknown to Euclid, moreover, as Morris Kline writes, “In this book Gauss
standardized the notation; he systematized the existing theory and extended it; and he
classified the problems to be studied and the known methods of attack and introduced
new methods. it not only began the modern theory of numbers but determined the
directions of work in the subject up to the present time.” Very good in a firm contemporary
quarter-leather binding in marbled boards that are rubbed and worn at the edges
and corners. The leather spine, with its lettering piece GAUSS / DELISLE, has become
detached and is laid into the book. The text, complete with half-title and errata leaf,
exhibits light foxing in the preliminary portion but is overall remarkably fresh and
completely unmarked except for a discreet early 20 th -century presentation on the front
blank and a small ex-institutional bookplate on the pastedown. [PMM 257 (Leipzig
1801,) Dibner 114, Horblit 38] $3,450.00
136. Heath, Sir Thomas L, editor. GREEK ASTRONOMY. London: J, M. Dent &
Sons Ltd., 1932. With a 40-page Introduction by the editor. Fine in light green cloth
with bright gilt lettering and design on the spine, in a near-fine dust jacket with slight
sunning on the spine and a closed tear on the front panel. With the ownership signature
of art critic and historian Meyer Shapiro on the front endpaper and 9 lines of hand written
notes in his hand on the verso of the rear free endpaper. $65.00
A classical text of veterinary medicine
137. [Hippiatrica] OPERA DELLA MEDICINA DE CAVALLI COMPOSTA DA
DIVERSI ANTICHI SCRITTORI, ET A COMMUNE UTILITA, DI GRECO IN BUONA
LINGUA VOLGARE RIDOTTA. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1543. The rare first edition
in Italian of a veterinary encyclopedia assembled from various 4 th through 6 th -century
Greek authors at the behest of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII. Small 8vo, 207,
[5] leaves. The Hippiatrica was preserved in five recensions during the Byzantine era,
the 10 th through 16 th centuries, in Greek. The first printed text was in a Latin translation
by Jean Ruel (Ruellius), published in Paris by Simon Colines in 1530. The first edition in

Greek was printed by Johann Walder in Basel in 1537 and served as the basis for this first
edition in Italian which was also the first edition in a vernacular European language,
followed by the French in 1563. This early text discusses problems that still concern
horse owners today, such as colic and lameness, and also treats aspects of horse care such
as grooming and stable management. There is also a section on various mixtures of horse
medicines. A very attractive copy with a bright text with no markings and only
occasional light foxing. Bound in somewhat later vellum over stiff wrappers, with very
moderate shelf dusting. In a light tan custom-made cloth slipcase with a morocco
lettering piece. Later reprints were issued by the same publisher in 1548 and 1559.
[Durling 2313; Sarton I, 657; McCabe, p.51] $4,000.00
138. Huarte, Gio. (Juan) ESSAME DE GL’INGEGNI DE GLI HUOMINI, PER
APPRENDER LE SCIENZE: Nel quale, scoprendosi la varieta delle nature, si mostra, a che
professione sia atto ciascuno, & quanto profitto habbia fatto in essa. Nuouamente
tradotto dalla lingua Spagnuola da M. Camillo Camilli. Venice: (Aldine Press,) 1582.
Very good in early 18th-century ¼-mottled sheep with gilt decoration on the spine and
the original morocco lettering piece, with the ex-libris of G. Fumach. The title page has
the Aldine anchor device but none is called for at the end of the text. The text is printed
in italic type and shows scattered foxing and there is light damp staining toward the rear.
This is the first edition of the Italian translation, by M. Camilli, of Juan Huarte’s
Examen de Ingenios, first published in Madrid in 1575 and considered the earliest attempt
to investigate human psychology in the modern sense. It was an extremely popular and
influential text that was translated into seven European languages and went through at
least 70 editions before 1700. The first version in English (1594) was translated from this
Italian translation by Richard Carew as: The Examination of Mens Wits. In Which, by
Discovering the Varietie of Natures, Is Shewed for What Profession Each One Is Apt, and
How Far He Shall Profit Therein. [Garrison-Morton 4967 (Original Spanish edition);
Renouard page 230.3] $1,850.00
139. Hyginus, Caius Julius. POETICON ASTRONOMICON. Pavia: J. Burgofranco,
1513. A very early edition of one of the first books to show astronomical diagrams
within pictorial representations of the Zodiac. The 47 woodcuts closely follow those of
the Ratdolt incunable edition (Venice, 1485) but appear to have been replicated by a
less skilled hand. An attractive copy in a 17 th -century vellum binding. $6,500.00
140. Legendre, A. M. ESSAI SUR LA THÉORIE DES NOMBRES. Paris: Chez
Duprat, Libraire pour les Mathématiques, An VI (1798.) A fine quarto copy of the first
edition in a contemporary quarter-leather binding with marbled boards. The leather
spine, with seven horizontal gilt lines and a leather lettering piece, is somewhat worn.
The text is complete with half-title and especially bright and virtually free of foxing or
markings, other than an ownership name on the verso of the front free endpaper. In this
book, Legendre published the first conjecture on the distribution of the primes: π(x) = x /
(A log (x) + B) where π(x) is the number of primes less than x. He also presented results
on Fermat’s ‘last theorem’ for certain cases and gave the most complete proof, to date, of
the theorem known as the law of quadratic reciprocity, the most important general result
in the science of numbers which had been discovered since the time of Fermat, and which
was called by Gauss the “gem of arithmetic.” Legendre’s improved proof in this book
was soon found incomplete by Gauss and corrected in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
(1801 – see item No. 157.) Although Legendre felt that Gauss, in his book, had not given

him proper acknowledgement, he graciously included Gauss’s result in the second edition
1808 edition of this title, which also included Legendre’s more precise estimate of his
prime distribution conjecture. The Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres, in its several
editions during Legendre’s lifetime, led to many fruitful research paths. $3,750.00
141. Lemnius, Levinus. DE HABITU ET CONSTITUTIONE CORPORIS, QUAM
GRAECI κράσιγ TRIVIALES COMPLEXIONEM VOCANT, LIBRI II. Frankfurt am
Main: Officina Paltheniana for the widow of Peter Fischer, 1596. Small 16mo., [16],
185, [9] pages. Lemnius (1505-1568) was born in the Dutch province of Zeeland and
studied theology, and then medicine under Vesalius. His treatise on humoral pathology
was first published in Antwerp in 1561, and became widely read, especially in Germany.
Lemnius attempted to show that it was the composition of the individual’s ‘complexion,’
(a mixture of various bodily ‘humors’) that determines their physical and mental
temperament. An early, but not the first, edition of this work to be published in
Germany. Very good in contemporary limp vellum, hand lettered down the spine, with
noticeable wear on the vellum although the binding remains firm. The text is moderately
browned but legible throughout. [Durling 2769] $600.00
142. Łukasiewicz, Jan. ARISTOTLE’S SYLLOGISTIC FROM THE STANDPOINT OF
MODERN FORMAL LOGIC. London: Oxford University Press, 1951. Fine in a fine priceclipped
dust jacket. The dark blue cloth binding has brilliant rules and lettering on the
spine and the text is fresh and unmarked except for an ownership signature on the front
free endpaper. An exceptional copy. $100.00
143. Moore, Jonas. MOORES ARITHMETICK: DISCOVERING THE SECRETS OF
THAT ART, IN NUMBERS AND SPECIES. In two Bookes. The first teaching (by Precept
and Example) the ordinary Operations of Numbers, whole and broken; the Rules of
Practise, Interest, and performed in a more facile manner by Decimalls, then hitherto
hath been published; the excellency, and new practise and use of the Logarithmes,
Nepayres bones, together with many Propositions, touching the Quantities, Qualities,
Resultments and Rules of Medicines. The second, the great Rule of Algebra in Species,
resolving all Arithmeticall Questions by supposition. Fitted to the meanest Capacity, and
published for the generall good of this Kingdome. London: Printed by Thomas Harper
for Nathaniel Brookes, at the Angell in Cornehill, 1650. With the three folding diagrams
tipped into the text, still retaining their instructions to the binder. The Arithmetick proved
very successful and was re-issued in 1660, with a third edition in 1688. It is especially
noteworthy for the section on Rules of Medicines where an application of mathematics to
a complex solution of a medical problem appeared in print for the first time. Moore uses
his Rule, the method of Alligation Alternate, which is “very necessary to mix quantities
of severall Rates, and to discover the mean price, as also in compositions of medicines,
for both the quantity and price.”
Jonas Moore was an acquaintance of Samuel Pepys and there are a number of mentions
of Moore in his diary, e.g., Tuesday, 9 June, 1663: “Up and after ordering some things
towards my wife’s going into the country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon
my measuring rules very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked
about mathematiques, and he tells me of a way found out by Mr. Jonas Moore which he
calls duodecimal arithmetique, which is properly applied to measuring, where all is
ordered by inches, which are 12 in a foot, which I have a mind to learn.” In the Wheatley
transcription of Pepys’s Diary (1893,) Moore is given a biographical footnote: “Jonas

Moore was born at Whitley, Lancashire, February 8th, 1617, and was appointed by
Charles I. tutor to the Duke of York. Soon after the Restoration he was knighted and
made Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. He was famous as a mathematician, and was
one of the founders of the Royal Society. He died August 27th, 1679, and at his funeral
sixty pieces of ordnance were discharged at the Tower.”
Sympathetically rebound in half-leather with speckled boards and gilt lettering and
design on the spine. The original leading and trailing blanks are present which contain
contemporary reader’s notes referring to examples on specific pages of the text which is
remarkably bright and free of foxing. There are occasional reader’s notes in the text as
well. The two books are separately paginated with separate title pages which have the
text within a decorated border, the first of which has been shaved rather close, especially
at the right edge. Very scarce. $3,250.00
144. Murphy, Gardner. THE FREEING OF INTELLIGENCE. An offprint from the
Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 1, January 1945. Stamped at the top: “Compliments
of the Author.” A fine 19-page stapled pamphlet ([20] blank) reprinting the presidential
address delivered at the 52 nd Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association
at the Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio, September 11, 1944. $35.00
With a Platonic Quine inscription
145. Quine, Willard Van Orman. FROM A LOGICAL POINT OF VIEW 9 LOGICO-
PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1963. Near-fine in
wrappers. This Harper Torchbooks edition is the first paperbound issue of one of
Quine’s major collections of essays on logic, reprinted from the revised second edition
published by Harvard University Press in 1961. The verso of the front wrapper has a
full-page presentation inscription from the author: “To my dearest Rosalind Aldrich / of
the Get together / Aldrich~s / As always - / Platonically yours, / Willard Van Orman
Quine / November 29, 1965 / Philadelphia” $300.00
146. Salusbury, Thomas. MATHEMATICAL COLLECTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS.
In Two Tomes. London: Dawsons and Los Angeles: Zeitlin and Ver Brugge, 1967. Fine
in the publisher’s leather binding with the original slipcase. The lettering pieces are
labeled SALUSBURY MATHEMATICAL COLLECTIONS. A facsimile edition with an
important Analytical and Bio-Bibliographical Introduction by Stillman Drake. The
original volumes, which contained the first English printings of works by Galileo, were
first published in London in 1661 and 1665 and are extremely rare. This is set number 21
of a total edition of 200 numbered sets, now uncommon. $1,450.00
147. Schächter, Josef. PROLEGOMENA ZU EINER KRITISCHEN GRAMMATIK.
Vienna: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1935. Very good in printed wrappers. Issued as
Band 10 in the publisher’s series of monographs by members of the Vienna Circle,
Schriften zur Wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung, herausgegeben von Philipp Frank und
Moritz Schlick. It is interesting to note that the two preceding titles in the series were (8)
Carnap - Logische Syntax der Sprache, and (9) Popper - Logik der Forschung. $450.00
148. Scribonius, Largus. SCRIBONII LARGI COMPOSITIONES MEDICÆ. IOANNES
RHODIUS recensuit, Notis illustrauit, Lexicon Scribonianum adiecit. Padua: P. Frambotto,
1655. The Compositiones Medicæ is noted for the first mention of electrical shock
treatment in the medical literature. Very good in contemporary vellum. $725.00

149. Smullyan, Raymond M. THEORY OF FORMAL SYSTEMS. Annals of Mathematical
Studies Number 47. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. With an
ownership signature on the first page and remnants of tape used to attach a protective
wrapper, else fine in printed orange wrappers. This elegant exposition of computability
and recursive function theory is based on Smullyan’s Princeton doctoral thesis under
Alonzo Church, but he is as well-known for his popular, yet profound, books on logical
puzzles and chess problems. $75.00
T. W. Higginson’s copy
150. Somerville, Mary. ON THE CONNECTION OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES.
From the Seventh London Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. With the
penciled ownership signature of T. (Thomas) W. (Wentworth) Higginson, dated August
1846, on the front end paper. Mary Somerville (1780-1872,) one of the first women in
England to be recognized for her outstanding contributions to science, was a largely selftaught
polymath who achieved major acclaim for her 1831 translation of Laplace’s
Mecanique Celeste into English. Three other books followed: On the Connection of the
Physical Sciences (1834,) Physical Geography (1848,) and Molecular and Microscopic
Sciences (1869.) William Whewell coined the term “scientist” in his 1834 review of this
title since theretofore, a ‘scientist’ could always be referred to as a “man of science.”
This is an extraordinary association copy of the first American edition, having been
acquired by T. W. Higginson in the year of its publication, shortly after his graduation
from law school. Throughout his
illustrious and varied career,
Higginson made a special practice
of advocating the advancement of
women in all aspects of society.
In fact he may now be best known
for his famous exchange of letters
with Emily Dickinson at the time
he edited the Atlantic Monthly,
and for his later co-editing of her
first book of poems. In his book
Women and the Alphabet,
published in 1881, he includes the
following in the chapter headed Intellectual Cinderellas: “When, some thirty years ago, the
extraordinary young mathematician, Truman Henry Safford, first attracted the attention of New
England by his rare powers, I well remember the pains that were taken to place him under instruction
by the ablest Harvard professors: the greater his abilities, the more needful that he should have
careful and symmetrical training. The men of science did not say, "Stand off! let him alone! let him
strive patiently until he has achieved something positively valuable, and he may be sure of prompt
and generous recognition--when he is fifty years old." If such a course would have been mistaken
and ungenerous if applied to Professor Safford, why is it not something to be regretted that it was
applied to Mrs. Somerville? In her case, the mischief was done: she was, happily, strong enough to
bear it; but, as the English critics say, we never shall know what science has lost by it. We can do
nothing for her now; but we could do something for future women like her, by pointing this obvious
moral for their benefit, instead of being content with a mere tardy recognition of success, after a
woman has expended half a century in struggle.”
One can appreciate why Mary Somerville achieved such extraordinary praise. Her
expositions in this book are always lucid and compelling and make use of a wide range of

the latest scientific results. The pages of notes at the rear contain many geometrical
diagrams and there are five plates following. A very good copy in the publisher’s
embossed cloth binding with bright gilt decoration and lettering on the front panel and
spine. The crown and foot of the spine are worn and there is a damp stain in the inner
margin evident for the first 25 leaves. The text, still partially unopened, is crisp and
unmarked though with occasional foxing. The lettering at the foot of the spine indicates
that this volume is no. XIV in Harper’s New Miscellany Series and the text ends with 8
pages of advertisements for earlier volumes in that series. $750.00
151. Weinberg, Steven. THE FIRST THREE MINUTES. A MODERN VIEW OF THE
ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1977. Fine in a fine dust
jacket. $65.00
152. Wells, William Charles, M. D. AN ESSAY ON DEW, AND SEVERAL APPEAR-
ANCES CONNECTED WITH IT. Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1838.
Near fine, with light foxing, in the publisher’s original marbled wrappers. The American
edition is quite scarce, but reprints only a portion of the London edition of 1818 which
was titled: TWO ESSAYS: ONE UPON SINGLE VISION WITH TWO EYES; The
other ON DEW. A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. LLOYD, LORD KENYON. [Garrison and
Morton 1640 (Edition of 1818)] $575.00
153. [Witty, Robert] Robert Wittie. ΌΎΡΑΝΟΣΚΟΠΊΑ. OR, A SURVEY OF THE
HEAVENS. A PLAIN DESCRIPTION OF THE ADMIRABLE FABRICK AND MOTIONS OF
THE HEAVENLY BODIES, AS THEY ARE DISCOVERED TO THE EYE BY THE
TELESCOPE, AND SEVERAL EMINENT CONSEQUENCES ILLUSTRATED THEREBY. I.
The Infinite Wisdom, Power, Glory and Incomprehensibility of God in the Creation. II.
The verifying of the Copernican Hypothesis. III. The probability of more inhabitable
Worlds. IV. The clearing of some difficult places of Scripture from doubtful
Interpretations. V. The higher Exaltation of Gods Attributes in the business of our
Redemption. VI. An Essay to prove the Sun to be the Seat of the Blessed, with several
other useful notions. To which is added the GOUT-RAPTURES, Augmented and
Improved. In English, Latine, and Greek Lyrick Verse. By Robert Wittie Dr in Physick
in both Universities, and Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians in London. London:
Printed by F. M. for the Author, and are to be sold by R. Clavell and F. Robinson in St.
Paul’s Church-Yard, and R. Boulter at the Turks-head in Cornhil, 1681. L8 (blank) is not
present. The second part has its own 1681 title page, although the pagination is
continuous: THE GOUT-RAPTURES, AUGMENTED AND IMPROVED. AΣTPO-
MAXIA: OR, AN HISTORICAL FICTION OF A WAR AMONG THE STARS. Witty
(1613-1684) was a Yorkshire physician with widespread interests in contemporary
scientific debates and in literary developments and translations of the classics. Although
dedicated to the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society, his Survey of the
Heavens is a strange amalgam but typical of pre-Newtonian physics, with its strong
exposition and defense of the Copernican system, yet remarkably ambivalent on the
validity of astrological observations and the inherent conflicts with scripture. Notably, he
was a friend of Andrew Marvell who composed a prefatory poem to Witty’s translation
of Vulgi Errorum, To his worthy Friend Doctor Witty upon his Translation of the
Popular Errors, which begins: “Sit further, and make room for thine own fame, / Where
just desert enrolles thy honour’d Name / The good Interpreter. . . .” Small 8vo. Very
good in a half-calf binding with marbled boards, most likely late 18 th -century, which has

een skillfully re-backed. The text is lightly foxed but overall quite nicely preserved,
with a portion closely shaved, particularly in the Gout-Raptures where some of the
printed marginalia is slightly affected. OCLC lists only four copies of this first edition in
North America. $2,500.00
Note: We have acquired an almost complete set of LES PRIX NOBEL, issued in
Stockholm annually, from the first in 1900 to the year 2000, except for the war years
when the awards were suspended. These annuals contain the prize citations, and
photographs and speeches of the winners in each of the prize categories. Please inquire.
Addenda
154. [Beckett, Samuel] ENDGAME.
New York: The Cherry Lane Theater,
1958. The off-b’way showbill for the first
English language production of Samuel
Beckett’s Endgame, directed by Alan
Schneider, along with the rare handbill for
the opening performance on Monday,
January 27, 1958, printed in red and black.
It had premiered in the original French in
London, as Fin de partie, at the Royal
Court Theatre in 1957. This was the
second Beckett play directed by Alan
Schneider, featuring Alvin Epstein as
Clov, P. J. Kelly as Nagg, Lester Rawlins
as Hamm, and Nydia Westman as Nell.
To round out a half century, we are
including the playbill and handbill for the
most recent Beckett Off-Broadway
production, Beckett Shorts, directed by
JoAnne Akalaitis and starring Mikhail
Baryshnikov, which ended its run on
January 20, 2008. $200.00
155. Beckett, Samuel. MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS. Special edition Hors Commerce
for Scholars. London: Calder and Boyars Ltd., 1966. The original edition was published
by Chatto & Windus in 1934 in an edition of 1500 copies of which only 500 were sold.
Several of the ten short pieces had subsequently appeared in anthologies and literary
magazines, but because there were so few copies for critics and academics to consult,
even in libraries, Calders and Boyer received permission for this special edition of 100
copies, consisting of reproductions of mimeographed typed sheets, printed on the rectos
only, in stapled white wrappers printed in black. There was apparently a later ‘second
edition,’ so designated, in the same format, also of 100 copies but with the front cover
printed in red, which we have not seen. Very good with some light wear and spotting on
the wrappers. Two of the pages have a one-word marginal annotation in ink. [Federman
& Fletcher 16 (orig. 1934 ed.), see note on p.14] $250.00

Bernard Henry Newdigate’s copy
156. Crashaw, Richard. STEPS TO THE TEMPLE, SACRED POEMS. WITH THE
DELIGHTS OF THE MUSES. By Richard Crashaw, sometimes of Pembroke Hall, and the
late Fellow of S. Peters Coll. In Cambridge. The second Edition wherein are added
divers pieces not before extant. London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be
sold at his Shop at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1648. This 1648 edition
of Crashaw’s poems follows the earlier edition of 1646 from the same publisher but
contains many new poems, as well as many of his more familiar poems that have been
greatly expanded, such as the two hymns to Saint Teresa. 12mo. [A6, B-F12, A-C12]
A2-A4 comprise “The Preface to the Reader” by the author’s friend and editor (the same
that appeared in the 1646 edition) whose identity remains unknown. The two parts are
separately paginated with their own title pages and Tables of Contents. The first for the
chiefly religious poems, and the second for “Other Poems written on severall occasions.”
One of his best-known works, Sancta Maria Dolorum, is printed here for the first time
(except for stanzas 7 & 8) as The Mother of Sorrowes. A number of the other new poems
(chiefly in Latin) were not reprinted until the scholarly editions of the early 20 th -century.
Modern criticism has firmly established Crashaw as one of the major metaphysical poets
and he is the most overtly religious. Born the son of a Puritan minister in 1613, he
became a Catholic and was forced to leave England in 1645 and died in Italy in 1649.
A very pleasing copy in what appears to be a
late 18 th or early 19 th -century sheep binding
with beveled edges, a leather spine lettering
piece, and marbled end papers. There are
three armorial bookplates. The two on the two
front end papers are of John Deakin Heaton,
M.D. with motto Esse Quam Videri, and
Bernard Henry Newdigate, sans motto. The
one on the rear, with motto Militavi non sine
Gloria, is hand-signed “J. Knight” below the
coat of arms. Bernard Henry Newdigate
(1869-1944) was the noted fine press printer
and publisher of Arden Press and the
Shakespeare Head Press and also wrote
Michael Drayton and his Circle and edited
The Poems of Ben Jonson. There is a partial
late 17 th or early 18 th -century ownership
signature on the title page, Ex Libris Tho. Loc __ (or Coo__ ) and also the monogram
initials JDH, dated 1861. John Deakin Heaton (1817-1880) was a civic-minded
physician in Leeds, primarily known for his role in the founding of Yorkshire College,
the precursor of the present University of Leeds.
In this copy, the Table for The Delights of the Muses (F11-F12) is inserted at the
beginning within the Preface, and the Table for The Steps to the Temple (A5-A6) is
inserted before the title page of the second part, in place of F11-F12. Lacking the
engraved title page preceding the letterpress title, which is supplied in facsimile (although
L. C. Martin, who examined many copies for textual variants, mentions that the engraved
title “is absent in some copies.”) However, this copy has an undated 14-page supplement
of the publisher’s advertisements , “Courteous Reader, these Books following are printed
for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Prince’s Armes in St. Paul’s
Church-yard,” bound at the end, not mentioned in any of the references we have

consulted. The page listing the The Stepps to the Temple also has a listing for Poems
written by Mr. William Shakspeare Gent. 8o., not known to ever have been published.
The text is complete but with minor imperfections, due chiefly to close shaving on the
bottom edge affecting some signatures and catch phrases, but also the last line of text on
p.21. There are some marginal notations and underlinings but these are unobtrusive.
Both the 1646 and 1648 editions of Steps to the Temple, the only two collections of
Crashaw’s poetry published in his lifetime, are very uncommon. [Allison p. 3 no.7,
Hayward 83, Martin xlvi-xlvii, 502-516, and following] $7,000.00
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□ Allison, A. F. Four Metaphysical Poets. George Herbert Richard Crashaw Henry
Vaughn Andrew Marvell. A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Early Editions of their
Poetry and Prose. Folkestone & London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1973.
□ (BAL) Bibliography of American Literature compiled by Jacob Blanck. Nine
volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955.
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Books. Crestline, CA: Kolbe, 1997
□ Dibner, Bern. Heralds of Science as represented by two hundred epochal books and
pamphlets selected from the Burndy Library. Norwalk: Burndy Library, 1955.
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Library of Medicine. Bethesda, Md: National Library of Medicine, 1967.
□ Edel, Leon & Laurence, Dan H. A Bibliography of Henry James. London: Rupert
Hart-Davis, 1961.
□ Edelstein, J. M. Wallace Stevens A Descriptive Bibliography. University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1973.
□ Gallup, Donald. Ezra Pound A Bibliography. Charlottesville: The University Press
of Virginia, 1983.
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History of Medicine. 5 th Edition edited by Jeremy N. Norman. Aldershot, Hants: Scolar
Press, 1991.
□ Gilson, David. A Bibliography of Jane Austen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.
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Club, 1998.
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An Essay in Bibliography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.
□ Hayward, John. ENGLISH POETRY. A Descriptive Catalogue. London: Exhibited
by the National Book League, 1947.
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Club, 1964.
□ Keynes, Geoffrey. A Bibliography of Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s. Fourth
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1965.
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Library of Medicine. Bethesda, Md: U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare,
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Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927.
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1983.
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books, Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. New York: George Braziller, 2000.
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Western Civilization. John Carter & Percy H. Muir, Editors. London: Cassell & Co,
and New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967.
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Collection. London Constable & Co. 1951. (Reprint, New York: Cooper Square, 1969)
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Alphabetical Listing of Early Printed Material 1513-1749
■ Anania, Giovanni Lorenzo d’ L’UNIVERSALE FABRICA DEL MONDO. Naples,
1573. [3 ]
■ Andrewes, Lancelot. XCVI. SERMONS. London, 1632. [4 ]
■ Briggs, Wallis, Halley, and Sharp. MATHEMATICAL TABLES. London, 1717.
[124 ]
■ Calamy, Ed.(Edmund), B. D. THE GODLY MANS ARK London, 1657. [15 ]
■ Cardano, Girolamo. DE SUBTILITATE LIBRI XXI. Basel, 1582. [125 ]
■ Collins, William. ODES ON SEVERAL DESCRIPTIVE AND ALLEGORIC SUBJECTS.
London, 1747. [18 ]

■ Columb, Fernand. LA VIE DE CRISTOFLE COLUMB. Paris, 1681. [19 ]
■ Crashaw, Richard. STEPS TO THE TEMPLE, SACRED POEMS. London, 1648.
[156 ]
■ Del Rio, Martin Antonio. DISQUISITIONUM MAGICARUM LIBRI SEX. Mainz,
1603. [24 ]
■ Desaguliers, J. T. A SYSTEM OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY. London, 1719.
[128 ]
■ Donne, John. POEMS BY J. D. WITH ELEGIES ON THE AUTHORS DEATH. London,
1635. [27 ]
■ Duns Scotus, John. SCRIPTUM. Lyons, 1530. [28 ]
■ [Franceso III, d’Este] GENGHISCANO IMPERADORE. Modena, 1741. [35 ]
■ Fulvio, Andrea. ILLUSTRIUM IMAGINES. Rome, 1517. [67 ]
■ [Gardening] Stevenson, Rev. THE GENTLEMAN GARD’NERS’ DIRECTOR.
London, 1744. [38 ]
■ Garzoni, Tomaso. L’ HOSPIDALE DE’ PAZZI INCURABILI. Venice, 1601. [134 ]
■ [Hippiatrica] OPERA DELLA MEDICINA DE CAVALLI. Venice, 1543. [137 ]
■ Huarte, Gio. ESSAME DE GL’INGEGNI DE GLI HUOMINI. Venice, 1582. [138 ]
■ Hyginus, Caius Julius. POETICON ASTRONOMICON. Pavia, 1513. [139 ]
■ [Justice, Alexander] A. J. A COMPLEAT ACCOUNT OF THE PORTUGUEZE
LANGUAGE: London, 1701. [76 ]
■ Lactantius. L. COELLI LACTANTII FIRMIANI DIUINARUM INSTITUTIONUM.
Venice, 1535. [55 ]
■ Lemnius, Levinus. DE HABITU ET CONSTITUTIONE CORPORIS. Frankfurt am
Main, 1596. [141 ]
■ Le Pois, Antoine. DISCOURS SUR LES MEDALLES ET GRAVURES ANTIQUES,
PRINCIPALEMENT ROMAINES. Paris, 1579. [69 ]
■ Moore, Jonas. MOORES ARITHMETICK. London, 1650. [143 ]
■ Moxon, Joseph. PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE. London, 1670. [108 ]
■ Natividade, Francisco da. LENITIVOS DA DOR. Lisbon, 1700. [77 ]
■ [Neale, Thomas] A PROFITABLE ADVENTURE TO THE FORTUNATE. London,
1694. [37 ]
■ Occo, Adolph. IMPP. ROMANORUM NUMISMATA A POMPEIO MAGNO AD
HERACLIUM. Antwerp, 1579. [68 ]
■ [Sappho] Fulvio Ursinus, Ed. CARMINA NOVEM ILLUSTRIUM FEMINARUM.
Antwerp, 1568. [88 ]
■ Scribonius, Largus. COMPOSITIONES MEDICÆ. IOANNES RHODIUS recensuit.
Padua: P. Frambotto, 1655. [148 ]
■ Simon, James. AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF IRISH COINS. Dublin, 1749.
[70 ]
■ [Vitruvius] Giovanni Poleni. EXERCITATIONES VITRUVIANAE. Venice, 1739 –
1741. [118 ]
■ Wittie, Robert. ΌΎΡΑΝΟΣΚΟΠΊΑ. OR, A SURVEY OF THE HEAVENS. London,
1681. [153 ]

Adams, John Quincy. 1
Agee, James R. 2
Aldine Press. 55 138
Americana. 1 150 152
Anania, Giovanni
Lorenzo d’. 3
Anatomy. 122
Andrewes, Lancelot. 4
Architecture. 105 118
Arts & Crafts. 115
Astronomy. 136 139
153
Aury, Dominique. 5
Austen, Jane. 6
Baglioni, Heirs of. 9
Bazalgette, Léon. 98
Beat Literature. 39 91
Beckett, Samuel. 154
155
Bialoszewski, Miron. 7
Bindings 8 24
Blondel de Saint Aubin,
(Guillaume.) 123
Books about books. 9
10 118
Bradstreet, Anne. 11
Briggs, Henry. 124
Brontë, Emily Jane. 12
Bunting, Basil. 13
Burns, Robert. 14
Calamy, Edmund. 15
Camden, William. 16
Cardano, Girolamo. 125
Chandrasekhar, S. 126
Chavèe, Achille. 17
Children’s Books. 10
111
COBRA. 102
Collins, William. 18
Columb, Fernand. 19
Cooper, Anna J. 20
Corneille. 102
Courant, Richard. 127
Crane, Hart. 21-23
Crashaw, Richard. 156
INDEX of AUTHORS and SUBJECTS
Del Rio, Martin
Antonio. 24
Dent, Tory. 25
Desaguliers, J. T. 128
Didion, Joan. 26
Donne, John. 27
Duff, Charles. 54
Duns Scotus, John. 28
Eliot, George. 29
Eliot, T. S. 4 30
Elshemius, Louis M.
103
Feynman, Richard. 129
Fields, James T. 31
Fine Press Books. 8 64
Fischl, Eric. 104
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. 32
Fontenelle, Bernard de.
8
Forster, E. M. 33 34
Fraenkel, Abraham. 130
131
Francesco III, d’Este.
35
Frege, Gottlob. 132 133
French Language. 5 17
19 20 32 43 63 66 69 95
98 117 123 130 135 140
Frost, Robert. 36
Fulvio, Andrea. 67
Gans, Julius. 115
Garzoni, Tomaso. 134
Gauss, Carl Friedrich.
135
Gambling. 37
Gardening. 38
German Language. 104
110 132 133 147
Ginsberg, Allen. 39
Giovanni, Nikki. 40 41
Gorey, Edward. 30 42
Greek Language. 88 153
Greenberg, Clement. 109
Gréville, Henry. 43
Guimarães Rosa, João.
44
Hadid, Zaha M. 105
Haitian interest. 63
Hall, Donald. 45
Halley, Edmond. 124
Harmsworth, Desmond.
54
Heaney, Seamus. 46 47
Hearon, Shelby. 48
Heath, Sir Thomas L.
136
Hemingway, Ernest. 49
Hémon, Louis. 50
Higginson, T. W. 150
Hippiatrica. 137
Hodgkin, Howard. 106
Hogarth Press. 33
Hopkins, Gerard Manley.
28
Huarte, Gio. (Juan) 138
Hyginus, Caius Julius.
139
Italian Language. 3 9 30
35 121 134 137 138
James, Henry. 51-53
Japanese interest. 71
117
Joyce, James. 54
Justice, Alexander. 76
Karl, Frederick R. 29
Kelmscott Press. 64
Koolhaas, Rem. 105
Lactantius. 55
Latin Language. 16 24
28 55 67 68 88 118 125
139 141 148 153 156
Lawrence, D. H. 56
Legendre, A. M. 140
Lemnius, Levinus. 141
Le Pois, Antoine. 69
Letters. 34 80 97
Lewis, Sinclair. 2
Literary Magazines. 21
78 94
Lubett, Denise. 8

Łukasiewicz, Jan. 142
Malamud, Bernard. 57
58
March, Joseph Moncure.
116
Marden, Brice. 107
Mathematics. 123-125
127 130-133 135 140 142
143 146 149
Medicine. 122 134 137
138 141 143 148 152
Melville, Herman. 59
Menashe, Samuel. 60
Meredith, George. 61
Merriman, Henry Seton.
62
Modern Library. 50
Moore, Jonas. 143
Morpeau, Louis. 63
Morris, William. 64
Moxon, Joseph. 108
Murdoch, Iris. 65
Murphy, Gardner. 144
Natividade, Francisco
da. 77
Neale, Thomas. 37
Nemerov, Howard. 109
Newman, Barnett. 109
Nothomb, Amélie. 66
Numisatics. 67-70
Occo, Adolph. 68
Oe, Kenzaburo. 71
Olds, Sharon. 25
Osborne, John. 72
Paz, Octavio. 73
Phillips, Mary E. 74
Physics. 125 126 128 129
136 139 146 150 151-153
Piene, Otto. 110
Plantin Press. 68 88
Poe, Edgar Allan. 74
Poetry. 7 11-14 17 18 21
25 27 30 39-41 46 47 59-
61 63 73 78 88 91 93 94
96-98 100 101 103 153
156
Poleni, Giovanni. 118
Poole, Ernest. 75
Portuguese Language.
76 77
Pound, Ezra. 78 79
Powell, Anthony. 80 81
Powell, Dawn. 82 83
Psychology. 134 138
141 144
Queen, Ellery. 84 85
Quine, Willard Van
Orman. 145
Rackham, Arthur. 111
Rauschenberg, Robert.
112 113
Reage, Pauline. 5
Religion. 4 15 24 27 28
55 77 156
Robbins, Herbert. 127
Roth, Philip. 86 87
Salusbury, Thomas.
146
Sappho. 88
Schächter, Josef. 147
Schnabel, Julian. 114
Scribonius, Largus. 148
Shaffer, Peter. 89
Shakespeare, Olivia. 90
Shapiro, Meyer. 136
Sharp, Abraham. 124
Simon, James. 70
Simon, Joan. 120
Smullyan, Richard M.
149
Snyder, Gary. 91
Solano, Solita. 92
Somerville, Mary. 150
Southwest Pueblo Art.
115
Spanish Language. 73
Spender, Stephen. 93
Spiegelman, Art. 116
Stevens, Wallace. 94
Stevenson, Rev. 38
Supervielle, Jules. 95
Surrealism. 17
Teasdale, Sara. 96
Tuer, Andrew W. 10
Ursinus, Fulvio. 88
Verneuil, M. P. 117
Vitruvius. 118
Walkowitz, Abraham.
119
Wallis, John. 124
Wegman, William. 120
Weinberg, Steven. 151
Wells, William Charles.
152
Welty, Eudora. 97
Whitman, Walt. 98
Witchcraft. 24
Wittie, Robert. 153
Woolf, Virginia. 33
Xhafa, Sislej. 121
Yeats, William Butler.
99 100
Zagajewski, Adam. 101

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