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A Traitor Wooing a Boston Debutante

1. Arnold, Benedict: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM BENEDICT ARNOLD TO MRS. HENRY KNOX]. Watertown. March 4, 1777. [1]p. plus inte-gral address leaf. Folio. Small loss in margin from wax seal, repaired. Minor soiling. Silked. Very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

An anxious letter written by a smitten Benedict Arnold to Boston society matron Lucy Flucker Knox, enclosing a letter for delivery to young Miss Betsy De Blois. The love-struck hero of Fort Ticonderoga writes:

“Dear Madam, I have taken the liberty of incloseing a letter for the heavenly Miss Deblois, which by the favour of your delivering, with the trunk of gowns &c., which Mrs. Colburn promis’d me to send to your house, I hope she will make no objections against receiving them. I make no doubt you will soon have the pleasure of seeing the charming Mrs. Emery, and have it in your power to give me some favourable intelligence. I shall remain under the most anxious suspense until I have the favour of a line from you, who (if I may judge) will from your own experience, conceive the fond anxiety, the glowing hopes, and chilling fears, that, alternately possess [me].”

In February 1777, in Mrs. Knox’s drawing room, Arnold was introduced to Boston society and – more importantly – to the “beautiful...straight, tall, elegant” Tory belle, Elizabeth (Betsy) De Blois. A widower for a little over a year, Arnold immediately fell headlong in love with the sixteen-year-old Betsy – twenty years his junior – and asked Mrs. Knox to present his case. Delighted with her role as matchmaker, Lucy Knox dutifully delivered Arnold’s ardent letters, along with a trunk of gowns and other lavish gifts, designed to show both his affection and financial solidity. He hoped that Betsy would accept these gifts as well as his desire to court her. Possibly owing to the vast difference in age, the “heavenly Miss Deblois” rebuffed Arnold’s several advances, finally refusing to answer his dramatic and passionate love letters. Betsy had many subsequent suitors, but in the end, never married. Having failed to win the hand of Miss De Blois, Arnold began courting the lovely and vivacious Margaret (Peggy) Shippen in the summer of 1778, to whom he wrote equally ardent letters – one of which he lifted practically verbatim from a letter he had sent to Betsy De Blois. The two were wed in April 1779. $15,000.

A Fall Miscellany

Early Voyages to the New World

2. Barrow, John: A COLLECTION OF AUTHENTIC, USEFUL, AND ENTERTAINING VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES, DIGESTED IN A CHRONOLOGI-CAL SERIES. PERFORMED BY THE FOLLOWING CELEBRATED COMMANDERS.... London: Printed for J. Knox, 1765. Three volumes. [12],[2],271,[1]; [6],264; [4],280pp., plus four folding maps and five plates. Folding frontispiece maps in first and second volumes. Contemporary calf, raised bands, spines gilt, leather labels. Lightly worn at hinges and around edges. Bookplates on front pastedown and flyleaf of each volume. Very good. Misbound, with complete text of first volume bound between boards of second volume, and vice versa. The plates, however, are

in the correct volumes so that the illustrations of Columbus’ voyage are bound in the Dampier narrative, and so on. The third volume is bound correctly.

Collects accounts of the voyages of Columbus, de Gama, Drake, Raleigh, and others. The maps include a world map; plans of the cities and harbors of Havana, Portobello, Cartagena and Louisburg; a map of Cape Horn; and a map of the Pacific Ocean. $1000.

The Mayor of St. Barts

3. Bergius, O.E.: OM WESTINDIEN. Stockholm: A. Gadelius, 1819. [6],294,[1]pp. Contemporary half calf, stamped in gilt, and blue paper boards. Negligible soiling, clean and fresh. A very good copy.

A rare early 19th-century Swedish publication on the West Indies. The author was the mayor of the Swedish colony on St. Barthélemy, which is described in great detail in one chapter. Other chapters are devoted to natural history; products including sugar, coffee, and cotton; the slave auctions held in the region; and Santo Domingo. An important source on St. Barts from its period of greatest economic success before the modern tourist era, when it was the primary free trade port of the Caribbean during the Napoleonic Wars because of Sweden’s neutrality.

A rare Swedish imprint concerned with the West Indies, with the original printed wrappers remarkably preserved. OCLC locates six copies worldwide, but not in Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection or Sabin, and no copies listed in American Book Prices Current in the last fifty years. $1750.

In the Voice of an Enslaved African American

4. [Black Minstrel Song Sheet]: I’M OFF TO CHARLESTOWN [caption title]. [N.p.]: Disley, Printer: [ca. 1850]. Single sheet, about 10 x 3½ inches. Some slight edge dustiness. Else very good.

British song sheet with black minstrel-style song: “My massa and my missus have both gone away, / Gone to the sulphur springs the summer months to stay; / And while they’re off togedder on a little kind of spreee / I’ll go down to Charlestown de pretty gals to see.” With somewhat incongruous woodcut vignette of a cavalier at top. $100.

Martha Bradstreet Seeks a Lawyer

5. [Boardman, Douglas]: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM DOUG-LAS BOARDMAN TO MARTHA BRADSTREET]. Ithaca, N.Y. Jan. 19, 1869. 3pp. [with:] OPINION OF HON. DOUGLAS BOARDMAN, IN THE CASES OF J. GRAY BAIN vs. JOSEPH M’CARTY, AND J. GRAY BAIN vs. DARIUS EVERY. SUBMITTED OCTOBER, 1866. Deposit, N.Y.: L.P. Allen, [1866]. 7pp. Letter folded for mailing, splitting at the main vertical fold, and along one horizontal fold. Pamphlet browned, some marginalia and underlin-ing, vertical crease. Both items very good.

Douglas Boardman was a Circuit Court judge in New York State. In this letter to Martha Bradstreet he praises her for her longevity and strength, and wishes her good health. He goes on to state that in his position as a member of the bench, he cannot offer her any legal advice, as he is proscribed by law from acting as attorney or counsel, but that he will be visiting the town of Delhi, New York, and she may visit him if she would like. Martha Bradstreet (1780-1871) was the step-granddaughter of colonial Gen. John Bradstreet (d. 1774), and spent some fifty years of her long life adjudicating land claims in upstate New York growing out of Bradstreet’s will. She often represented herself in court, but also retained the services of attorneys.

The Opinion... regards a case growing out of Martha Bradstreet’s numerous land claims in and around Utica, New York. The ruling was not in Mrs. Bradstreet’s favor in her attempt to claim historical title to the land. The titlepage bears the ownership signature of Edward Livius Bradstreet, her longest surviving son, who carried on the fight for hereditary land rights after his mother’s death. No copies listed on OCLC. Scarce. $500.

First Collected English Treaties

6. [British Treaties]: A GENERAL COLLECTION OF TREATYS, DEC-LARATIONS OF WAR, MANIFESTOS, AND OTHER PUBLICK PAPERS, RELATING TO PEACE AND WAR, AMONG THE POTENTATES OF EUROPE, FROM 1648 TO THE PRESENT TIME.... [with:] VOLUME THE SECOND...FROM 1495 TO THE PRESENT TIME.... London. 1710/1713. Two volumes. 35,[13],448; xxii,[2],560,23pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt morocco labels. Bookplate on verso of each titlepage, old signature and small ink stamp on each titlepage. Some foxing and light tanning. Overall, good plus.

The first collected English treaties. The first volume covers material from 1648 to 1709; the second covers pre-1648 material and new material. This set was the precursor of the much more thorough General Collection..., published in 1732, which is the major source for early English treaties. This two-volume set con-tains many treaties of Canadian and American interest, including the important 1670 British title for Hudson straits and bay, and a treaty of July 8, 1670 between Spain and Great Britain to reach a peace in America. Also included are the first and second Grand Alliances; treaties of commerce between England, France, Spain and Holland; and the treaty granting the right of the Crown of England to Hudson’s Bay, among many others.First volume only: SABIN 26872. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 710/60. $2750.

Interesting Collection Relatingto a Philadelphia Tradesman and His Family

7. Browne, John: [COLLECTION OF FOUR MANUSCRIPT VOLUMES BELONGING TO TRADESMAN JOHN BROWNE, COMPRISED OF TWO LEDGERS AND TWO RECEIPT BOOKS]. [Philadelphia. 1766-1825]. Four volumes, approximately [400] total manuscript leaves. Folio ledgers, 13 x 8 inches, oblong 12mo. receipt books, 4 x 6½ inches. First ledger in calf, tooled in blind: front board detached, rear hinge broken; boards and spine scuffed and stained; scattered foxing, but contents generally very good. Second ledger in three-quarter calf and marbled boards: boards scuffed, worn at extremities, front hinge starting; some scattered foxing, but generally very good; in a cloth

clamshell box. First receipt book in calf, tooled in blind: a few loose leaves; very clean internally; very good. Second receipt book in three-quarter calf and marbled boards: spine disintegrating, boards scuffed and worn; some scattered foxing and transfer between leaves; about very good. In a cloth clamshell box, leather label.

An interesting collection of manuscript volumes belonging to John Browne, a boat builder and tradesman in Philadelphia. Approximately half of the material is related to Browne’s business accounts, including receipts and lists of transac-tions. The other half, circa 1820, contains writing by Browne’s wife, Molly, and

possibly his children. This half of the manuscript material is of a more personal, scrapbook-esque nature, comprised of poems and pasted clippings.

The first ledger holds accounts from 1776. The first twelve pages are tabbed and divided into an alphabetical index containing dozens of names. Following that are the individual accounts, comprising 121 numbered leaves, which are followed by the total summary for the ledger (7pp.), and lastly, several blank pages. The ac-counts detail money leant by Browne, which is then repaid in labor. The accounts are set up on facing pages, one side detailing the debt and the other the credit for said debt. Thus, on July 6, 1776, William Flud received “To Cash” £1.4.6, and the corresponding entry across the page reads: “By 3½ days work @ 7/0” to total £1.4.6. The debts are undersigned by the debtor and provide a fascinating glimpse into this system of loans and labor.

The second of the two ledgers is more of a journal and scrapbook than an account book. Though the first five pages do contain some accounting information, they also contain a list of important familial and personal dates, a list of flowers growing in the garden, as well as two documents which have been pasted in. The first of these is a subpoena to Browne from the Court on the island of Tortola, dated Jan. 13, 1798 and embossed with an official seal. The subpoena calls Browne to testify “in our behalf the truth of your Knowledge in a certain business of the Capture made by John Hodge Commander of [a] Private Commissioned Schooner.” The majority of the middle of the volume is blank, though ruled for accounts. The latter half of the volume is written from the other side, making the rear board, in fact, the front board. This section of the ledger is, presumably, written by Browne’s wife, Molly, circa 1820. It is primarily composed of verse and various pieces of prose, most of which have been copied from other sources. There are other manuscript pages pasted into this section which contain similar writings.

The first of the receipt books has a few scattered entries dated 1776, 1779, 1792, and 1801, but the bulk of the book is devoted to 1788. The entries for 1788 deal almost exclusively with receipts for rent, though the other earlier and later entries are for items such as timber, and in one instance, a horse. The first few leaves have been pasted over with clippings from early newspapers. These are mostly verse, though there are some advertisements and brief news items.

The second receipt book has been pasted over quite thoroughly, circa 1820, with many different and interesting woodcut illustrations. The contents of this volume provide an interesting snapshot of the printing arts at that time. Illustrations have been clipped from newspapers and periodicals, books and almanacs, packaging labels and revenue stamps, encompassing everything from advertisements for new products and services to zodiac calendars. One illustration shows a sperm whale, which is labeled “Candles and Spermoil”; another shows an early printing press under the banner, “The tyrant’s foe, the people’s friend.” There are also several original children’s drawings, as well as scraps of wallpaper and flocking. A truly fascinating little book. $4750.

Interesting Lima Printing

8. Calatayud y Borda, Cypriano Geronimo de: ORACION FUNEBRE QUE EN LAS SOLEMNES EXEQUIAS DE LA R.M. MARIA ANTONIA DE SAN JOSEPH LARREA, ARISPE, DE LOS REYES: QUATRO VECES MINISTRA EN EL MONASTERIO DE TRINITARIAS DESCALZAS DE ESTA CIUDAD DE LIMA.... Lima: En la Imprenta de los Huerfanos, 1783. [116],144pp. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum, remnants of printed paper label. Light soiling to titlepage. Minor scattered soiling and foxing. Slight worming in center of text block, minutely affecting text. Corners trimmed from two leaves toward front. Good.

Funerary work for Maria Antonio de San Josepha (1718-81), which includes a labyrinth poem in the shape of a cross, printed in black, red, and green. Only six copies on OCLC.MEDINA, LIMA 1542. VARGAS UGARTE 2321. PALAU 39594. OCLC 77630191, 166611610, 55238516. $2000.

Likely Compiled by a Young Woman

9. [Commonplace Book]: [MANUSCRIPT COMMONPLACE BOOK, EN-TITLED “MEMORANDA INCOGNITA”]. New York. 1829. [40]pp. Quarto. Marbled wrappers. Wrappers detached and chipped, contemporary newspaper clippings pasted inside back cover. Internally very good.

Although the inside front cover of this book is signed by John M. Martin, the nature of the book’s entries lead one to believe that it was compiled by a young woman. It consists of a medley of literary ramblings, favorite quotations, chaste sayings, a poem about the American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake, a representative sketch of the “Corinthian style of Architecture,” and a twelve-page chronologi-cal survey of early British history. An interesting window on a young American woman’s literary leanings in the early 19th century. $250.

Early and Important Description of the Daguerreotype

10. [Daguerre, Louis J. M.]: Arago, Francois: ...LE DAGUERRÉOTYPE. [Contained in:] COMPTES RENDUS HEBDOMADAIRES DES SÉANCES DE L’ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES...TOME NEUVÌEME JUILLET – DÈCEMBRE 1839. Paris: Bachelier, 1839. 903,[1]pp. Large, thick quarto. Modern half morocco and cloth, edges wholly untrimmed and largely unopened. Some tanning at extreme edges, half-title and errata tanned, half-title chipped at lower fore-corner, but a nice, fresh copy.

First edition. On pages 250 through 267 appears the printed record of Francois Arago’s detailed presentation to the Academy, made in August, of Daguerre’s de-velopment of the photographic process that came to bear his name, constituting its first official description to the scientific community. A letter from Daguerre to Arago, “Des procédés photogéniques considérés comme moyens de gravure,” and comments addressing other relevant issues appear on pages 423 – 430, and a briefer note from Daguerre to Arago appears on pages 512-513. Arago’s Rapport...was also published separately, and Daguerre’s own work, Historique et Description des Procédés du Daguerréotype et du Diorama, appeared the same year, but was pre-ceded by Arago’s August presentation.PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 318 (note). HORBLIT 21b (note). $3000.

Description and Views of Turkey

11. Dallaway, James: CONSTANTINOPLE ANCIENT AND MODERN, WITH EXCURSIONS TO THE SHORES AND ISLANDS OF THE AR-CHIPELAGO AND THE TROAD. London. 1797. [2],xi,[1],415,[6]pp. plus ten colored aquatint plates. Quarto. Contemporary diced russia, rebacked in matching style, spine gilt. Very minor soiling, some offsetting from plates. About very good.

The author spent over a year in Constantinople as chaplain to the British embassy for the Ottoman Empire, from March 1794 to October 1795. He was already of

some note as a writer, and this work “was well regarded in its time, [and] helped to awaken interest in the ancient manuscripts to be found there, and contributed to the debate on the location of ancient Troy” (DNB). Besides descriptions of the city, Dallaway travelled with British ambassador Linton to find the site of ancient Troy. The handsome plates show views of Turkey, a Turkish woman, and various ruins including the Tomb of Apollo, and the Plain of Troy.ESTC T67772. ABBEY 392. BLACKMER 441. ATABEY 308. $2500.

First Book from the Ovid Press

12. Eliot, T. S.: ARA VUS PREC. London: The Ovid Press, [1920]. Quarto. Quarter yellow-tan cloth and black cloth over boards, paper label. Label dark-ened, with diagonal chip at one corner affecting the horizontal of the terminal ‘T’, coated black endsheets very faintly dusty, soft creases to six page corners, minor rubbing at bottom edge, but a very good copy. In a half morocco slipcase.

First edition, second state of the binding for the ordinary issue, in black cloth rather than black boards. From an edition specified as consisting of a total of 264 copies, this is an unnumbered copy. This copy, like six others examined by Cloud, exhibits the reversal of signature ‘C’ with the consequent disruption of pagination, and is printed on a slightly lighter weight Whatman paper, with edges trimmed. Ostensibly, there were to be ten unnumbered copies for review, but “the frequency with which unnumbered copies appear would indicate that a good many more than the unscheduled ten were so issued” – Gallup. See Gerald Cloud’s informed commentary on the internal and binding variants of this, the first book-length publication of the Ovid Press.GALLUP A4a. CLOUD, JOHN RODKER’S OVID PRESS A BIBLIOGRAPHI-CAL HISTORY, A5. $3000.

In a Remarkable Mother-of-Pearl Binding

13. [Gift Book]: [American Binding]: THE KEEPSAKE: A GIFT FOR THE HOLIDAYS. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS EXECUTED EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK. New York: John C. Riker, 1853. 304pp. plus chromolithograph presentation page and list of illustrations, added engraved titlepage, and seven plates. Publisher’s black lacquer binding with mother-of-pearl inlays, skillfully rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, a.e.g. White silk endpapers, stamped in gilt. Two corners chipped, part of central inlay chipped. Chromolithograph leaves chipped at extremities. Minor offsetting and foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

A lovely gift book in a spectacular lacquer-and-inlays binding. The seven plates complement the text, which includes a story by Agnes Strickland.FAXON, LITERARY ANNUALS AND GIFT BOOKS, p.39. THOMPSON, ANNUALS, p.132. $1250.

Exploring Africa

14. Gray, William: TRAVELS IN WESTERN AFRICA, IN THE YEARS 1818, 19, 20, AND 21, FROM THE RIVER GAMBIA, THROUGH WOOLLI, BONDOO, GALAM, KASSON, KAARTA, AND FOOLIDOO, TO THE RIVER NIGER. London. 1825. [iii]-xv,[1],413pp. plus fourteen plates (ten aquatints and four lithographs) and a folding map. Lacks the half title. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, leather label. Minor foxing on title and frontispiece, otherwise internally clean. Very good.

An account of a British exploring expedition whose goal was to explore the interior of Africa starting on the western coast with the goal of locating the source of the Niger River. The text describes the local scenery and populace, and the plates show native costumes, villages, and local flora; one plate shows eight musical instruments. The author’s final chapter discusses slavery and the nature of the African race in general.ABBEY 282. GAY 2899. $750.

Important Surrealist Printmaker

15. [Hayter, Stanley William]: Hugnet, Georges: OMBRES PORTÉES. Paris: Editions de la Montagne, [1932]. Large octavo. Printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. Modest shallow fraying at crown of spine, else about fine, in glassine wrapper.

First edition. Illustrated with five original engravings by Stanley William Hayter, prominent British surrealist printmaker and founder of Atelier 17. This is one of fifty numbered copies on Hollande Van Gelder, from a total edition of eighty copies, signed by the author and the artist.MONOD 6129. ARTIST & THE BOOK 1n. $2000.

Views Around Quebec

16. Hunter, William S.: HUNTER’S EASTERN TOWNSHIPS SCENERY, CANADA EAST. Montreal. 1860. Extra lithographed titlepage, 36pp. plus thir-teen tinted lithographic plates and engraved map. Quarto. Original brown cloth, gilt title on front cover; skillfully rebacked in matching brown cloth,. Binding corners repaired. Plates all clean, with original tissue guards intact. Overall a very good copy.

A beautiful volume of lithographed views of natural scenery in Quebec. Hunter engraved the views and J.H. Bufford of Boston was the lithographer. The result is a charming collection of scenic views along the rivers of east Canada. The

text describes the early settlements, climate, soil, birds, forest and fruit trees, and principal towns and villages, as well as descriptions of the plates. Some of the plates are “Lake Memphremagog,” “View From Sugar Loaf Looking North,” “Owls Head,” “Round Island Whet Stone, & Magoon Point,” among others. The map shows the different railways by which the eastern townships could be reached. Each plate is oval in shape, with smaller separately titled vignette images in each corner, resulting in a most pleasing overall effect. “Hunter lived in Stanstead and so could describe and illustrate this very beautiful part of the Province of Quebec from personal knowledge. The plates are of interest and increasing rarity” – TPL.SABIN 33936. LANDE 1863. SPENDLOVE, p.44. TPL 5907. $1250.

Buffalo Girl, Won’t You Come Out Tonight?

17. [Indian Portrait]: [WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG INDIAN GIRL]. [N.p. ca. 1880]. 8½ x 6¾ inches. Bright and clean. Mounted on heavy card, 8¼ x 6¾ inches.

An attractive folk portrait of a doe-eyed Indian woman shown seated at the edge of a sofa. The girl’s hands are folded gently in her lap, and she is shown wear-ing a patterned dress adorned with a large bow. It seems likely that the woman depicted is of mixed race, perhaps the daughter of a trader and an Indian woman. Judging by the dress and background, the picture was probably done about 1880, most likely in Canada. $1250.

Little-Known Photographic Assignment by Karsh

18. Karsh, Yousuf: [ORIGINAL GELATIN SILVER PRINT PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF TWO ZULU TRIBESWOMEN]. [N.p.: The Photogra-pher, ca. 1963]. Original glossy double-weight gelatin silver print from negative, 14 x 11 inches (inclusive of margins). Captioned in pencil on verso. About fine.

An original print of one of the sequence of superb photographs taken by Yousuf Karsh on location in South Africa during the filming of the 1964 Diamond Films production, Zulu, directed by Cy Endfield. Karsh’s invitation to join the produc-tion and photograph the cast and locale resulted in a sequence of photographs of a very high order. The present image is a beautiful half-length portrait of two Zulu tribeswomen in tribal dress, including elegant headgear, against the back-ground of the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains. The image is identified in pencil on the verso as “No. 208” in the series. Although this project is not as widely known as Karsh’s formal portraiture, examples of the resulting images have featured prominently in both museum and print retrospectives of his career. $900.

A Remarkable Pair of Images

19. Karsh, Yousuf: [TWO ORIGINAL GELATIN SILVER PRINTS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF ZULU TRIBESMEN WATCHING A MOVIE]. [N.p.: The Photographer, ca. 1963]. Two original glossy double-weight gelatin silver prints from negatives, 11 x 14 inches (inclusive of margins). Captioned in pencil on verso. About fine.

Original prints of two of the most memorable of the sequence of superb photo-graphs taken by Yousuf Karsh on location in South Africa during the filming of the 1964 Diamond Films production, ZULU, directed by Cy Endfield. Karsh’s invitation to join the production and photograph the cast and locale resulted in a sequence of photographs of a very high order. The present images are an ex-

traordinary pair of photographs, one from a near face-on p.o.v., the other from right profile, of a large group of Zulu tribesmen, in warrior regalia, seated and watching a motion picture (in the first of the images the 16mm projector is visible in the background). The expressions of wonder and amusement are matchless. The pencil caption on the verso reads of the first reads: “The Zulus watched a western movie at dusk outdoors in the Drakensberg Mountains.” The second reads: “No. 260. The Zulus’ reactions to a western movie – the first movie they have ever seen. They laugh most at the western kiss.” Although this project is not as widely known as Karsh’s formal portraiture, examples of the resulting im-ages have featured prominently in both museum and print retrospectives of his career. $1850.

Proof Print

20. Kent, Rockwell: BEOWULF AND THE DRAGON. [N.p.: The Artist, 1931]. Original stone lithograph (image area 34 x 24.5 cm; 13½ x 101/8 inches), plus margins. Matted and well-framed under UV glass. Not examined out of frame, but viewable area fine.

Perhaps the most famous of the images from Kent’s Beowulf suite, printed in an edition of 150 proofs and signed by Kent in the lower margin in pencil. When printed in the book edition of Beowulf (1932), the plate was reversed and slightly smaller. It was subsequently reproduced in The Dolphin (#2) and in the October 1939 issue of American Printer. Additional shipping if sent in frame.BURNE JONES 75. ROCKWELLKENTIANA 61. $1000.

Photographs from His Stay in Greenland

21. Kent, Rockwell: [THREE ORIGINAL PRINTS OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY ROCKWELL KENT AT JAKOBSHAVN (ILULISSAT) BAF-FIN BAY, GREENLAND]. [N.p. ca. 1931-1935, but possibly printed somewhat later]. Three original glossy black-and-white 7 x 5-inch gelatin silver prints. Slight surface variations characteristic of ferrotyping, and some spotting, scratches and other blemishes in the negatives are evident in the prints, one negative printed slightly askew, with some oxidation in the lower blank border, otherwise very good.

Until his death Rockwell Kent maintained a collection of at least 31 albums of prints of his photographs, arranged, identified and labeled according to locations/subjects. In that collection, the prints are occasionally identified by Kent in ink or bear his stamp. These three prints are duplicates from that personal archive, and correspond to images gathered in the album labeled by Kent: “Greenland Jakobshavn.” The first image, identified on the verso in pencil in an unknown hand as “RK-4-20” (a denotation recording the album and sequence of the par-ticular image) is a view of the Port of Jakobshavn (Ilulissat) in Disko Bay, a wide inlet of Baffin Bay in the Qaasuitsup Municipality in western Greenland, located 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The image is of five clapboard buildings in a rocky port village, one building with the Danish flag prominently flying at full staff, with a few fishing boats in the sea in the foreground. The second, identi-fied as “RK-4-19,” is of a whaling kayak on the rocky and pebble strewn shore of Disko Bay with coastal mountains and the Jakobshavn Glacier in the background. The third image, identified as “RK-4-21,” depicts the coastal glacial mountains in Disko Bay, with an iceberg calved from the Jakobhavn Glacier floating in the Bay. Kent frequently recorded scenes, people and settings via photographs dur-ing his voyages and travels, many of which he utilized as reference material, and are identifiable as such, in the production of his illustrations, prints and paint-ings made during and after his journeys. Kent made three trips to Greenland, first in 1929, and then in 1931-2 and 1934-5. These images date from the later

period. Although obviously best known for his works on paper and paintings, Kent was sufficiently renowned as a photographer during the 1930s that some of his photographs were reproduced in photogravure in a portfolio, Modern Masters of Photography, Series 1 Pictorialists, published by the Galleon Press. While those photogravures turn up separately with some frequency – usually well outside of their original context in the portfolio – individual original prints from negatives of Kent’s photographs are scarce. We note as reference the appearance of a single Greenland print in the same format, but with Kent’s ink rubber stamp on the verso: Swann Galleries, May 15, 2008, Lot 341 ($1300). $900.

With Remarks on Slavery

22. [Law, William]: [Benezet, Anthony]: AN EXTRACT FROM A TREA-TISE ON THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER, OR THE SOUL RISING OUT OF THE VANITY OF TIME INTO THE RICHES OF ETERNITY. WITH SOME THOUGHTS ON WAR. REMARKS ON THE NATURE AND BAD EFFECTS OF THE USE OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. AND CONSIDER-ATIONS ON SLAVERY. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1780. 84pp. 12mo. Dbd. Light soiling and age-toning, occasional foxing. Bottom margin of second leaf partially trimmed (no loss). A good copy.

A brief compendium of spiritual and anti-slavery writings by British religious writer and mystic William Law, influential Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet, and other unidentified authors. The “Extract” is attributed to William Law, the “Remarks on the nature and bad effects of spirituous liquors” to Benezet, and the “Thoughts on Slavery” to various writers. “Considerations on war,” which immediately follows the extract of Law’s Spirit of Prayer, is unattributed. The brief remarks on slavery are consistently against the institution. A typical passage begins: “The Bondage we have imposed on the Africans is absolutely repugnant to justice.” A fine gathering of spiritual and abolitionist writing printed in Phila-delphia in the later 18th century.ESTC W32233, w032232. EVANS 16817. HILDEBURN 16817. $425.

Aftermath of the Assassination

23. [Lincoln, Abraham]: THE NEW YORK HERALD [caption title]. New York. April 22, 1865. 8pp. Large folio newspaper. Moderate foxing and slight edge wear. Very good.

A sorrowful issue of The New York Herald, filled with details of the early progress of Lincoln’s funeral train. Articles range from a description of the President’s catafalque to Canadian reaction to his murder. On the day this issue went to press, Presidential assassin James Wilkes Booth fled across the Potomac into Virginia, while the funeral train arrived in Philadelphia.Long, E.B., The Civil War Day By Day, p.680. $250.

With the Kino Map of Arizona and New Mexico

24. Lockman, John: TRAVELS OF THE JESUITS, INTO VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD.... London. 1743. Two volumes. vi,xxii,[2],487; 507pp., plus 2pp. advertisements, five folding maps, folding plate, and errata. With the canceled leaves as described by Streeter. Modern half calf and marbled boards, leather labels. Unobtrusive later ownership label on bottom of each titlepage. Some tanning and light foxing. Very good, with maps and plate in near fine state, and with the uncanceled leaves in the first volume as described by Streeter.

An abridged translation of the first ten volumes of Lettres Edifiantes..., including Piccolo’s description of the California missions; particulars of the missions in Mexico, Peru, and Hudson Bay; and Barrera’s Abode Among the Moxos and Chiriguanos of South America. “A work so entertaining and curious, that it has been translated into most of the languages of Europe” – Cox. Includes handsome engraved maps of Arizona and New Mexico showing part of California, Tierra del Fuego, the Straits of Magellan, the “Mission of the Moxos, or Moxes: settled by the Jesuits in Peru,” and the Malabar and Coromandel coasts. An “Account of the Chiriguanos of South America” is also included. The plate illustrates the ginseng plant. San Francisco dealer David Magee bought the Streeter copy for $120.HOWES L414. COX I, p.14 (2nd ed). HILL 1031 (later ed). SABIN 40708, 40709. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 743/131. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 74a (note). STREETER SALE 2430. $2750.

Costumes of Peoples of the World

25. [Loumyer, Jean François Nicolas]: COSTUMES USOS E TRAJOS DE TODOS OS POVOS DO MUNDO EM FACE DE DOCUMENTOS AU-THENTICOS E DAS MAIS RECENTES VIAGENS. Lisbon. 1872-1878. Five volumes. 421,[2]; 439,[5]; 539,[10]; 538,[10]; 473,[5]pp., plus several hundred color

plates. Contemporary half brown morocco, gilt-stamped spine. Small bookplate on each front pastedown, con-temporary ownership signature on each titlepage. Slight foxing on edges of text block, but internally quite clean and bright. Very good.

Portuguese edition of a work first appearing in French between 1843 and 1844. Published under the pseudonym of Auguste Wahlen, the original edition contains four volumes (“Asia,” “Océanie,” “Afrique/Amérique,” and “Europe”). This edition includes a fifth volume covering both Asia and India. The color plates depict indigenous peoples of

all locales in their native dress. Although the costumes of those people outside Europe appear quite accurate, the ethnic features of the models are more than slightly westernized. In addition to the many color plates, each volume includes copious textual matter relating to the history, economy, and other specifics about the five regions. In all, an excellent and rare color plate book of world culture. This edition is not in Hiler. $2750.

Early American Stud Book

26. Mason, Richard: THE GENTLEMAN’S NEW POCKET FARRIER, COMPRISING A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE NOBLE AND USEFUL ANIMAL THE HORSE.... Richmond: Printed by Peter Cottom, 1830. 388pp. plus five plates. Illustrations in text. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with spine gilt, leather label. Moderate to heavy foxing, some browning, burn hole in one leaf with slight loss of text. Contemporary gift inscription on front flyleaf. A decent copy.

This is the fifth edition, after the first of 1811. The fourth edition included the first American stud book; the present edition contains the stud book, but has the distinction of being the “earliest example of an alphabetical Stud Book printed in America” (Henderson). This edition also includes for the first time Samuel W. Pomeroy’s “Essay on Mules,” reprinted from The American Farmer. The plates depict horses in various modes of work and activities, including “A Virginia Race Horse.” This edition is not listed in Haynes.HENDERSON, p.122. $1250.

One of 250 Copies, Signed

27. McMurtry, Larry: IN A NARROW GRAVE ESSAYS ON TEXAS. Austin: The Encino Press, 1968. Large octavo. Reversed calf-backed printed boards, gilt label. A fine, partially unopened copy, in a near fine slipcase with small bump at one corner.

First edition, corrected printing, limited issue. One of 250 numbered copies, specially printed on untrimmed Artlaid paper, specially bound, and signed by the author. A collection of essays marking a watershed in Southwestern letters. $2500.

Early Visitor to New York

28. Melton, Edward: EDUWARD MELTONS, ENGELSCH EDELMANS, ZELDZAAME EN GEDENKWAARDIGE ZEE- EN LAND-REIZEN; DOOR EGYPTEN, WEST-INDIEN, PERZIEN, TURKYEN, OOST-INDIEN....Amsterdam. 1702. [4],495,[7]pp. plus nineteen copper plates and engraved title. Elaborate woodcut letters and decorations. Quarto. Contemporary vellum. Scat-tered tanning and light foxing. Very good.

Second edition. Sabin calls this a reproduction of the first edition of 1681, with a new preface. “Who this Melton was, is an unsettled problem. His travels in the

West Indies relate partly to the buccaneers. The chapter on New Netherland is made up from Van der Donck and A. Montanus. All the natural productions of the country are described, and the names given in the Indian dialects of Guyana, with occasional observations on the pronunciation of the words....The text is in Friesic Dutch....Several of the plates are by the celebrated Jan Luiken, and are among his best productions; one of them is a view of the Cohoes Falls in the Mohawk river” – Sabin. Melton also claimed to have travelled around the world, and the bulk of the book relates to those possibly apocryphal adventures.SABIN 47473. JCB (3)I:25. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 702/129. $2000.

Uncommon Triple Decker

29. Melville, Herman: MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. Three volumes. Octavo. Turn-of-the-century three-quarter olive calf and marbled boards, spines gilt extra, gilt labels, by Larkins. Extremities a bit rubbed and worn, but a handsome, very good set, with the half titles in the second and third volumes (none called for in the first).

First edition, preceding the U.S. edition. One of one thousand sets printed. Apart from The Whale, Melville’s only other three volume novel, and while a difficult set indeed in original cloth, even sets in bindings such as that in hand are uncommon.SADLEIR (EXCURSIONS), p.225. BAL 13657. $6750.

Brothel Business Card

30. [Mississippi]: [Bordellos]: [BUSINESS CARD ADVERTISING AN ES-TABLISHMENT WHICH PARTICULARLY CATERS TO TRAVELING GENTLEMEN]. Cleveland, Ms. [ca. 1910?] Single card, 2 x 3¾ inches. Minor soiling and creasing. Very good.

A business card for the Gordin House in Cleveland, Mississippi, Mrs. S.S. Floyd, proprietress. The card indicates: “Special attention paid to traveling men.” Pa-trons can stay for a mere two dollars per day. In all likelihood, the advertised establishment was, in fact, a whorehouse. Cleveland, Mississippi, established in 1887 and named for President Grover Cleveland, is a small town in the Missis-sippi Delta. $200.

With Fine American Color Plates

31. Munson, Laura Gordon: FLOWERS FROM MY GARDEN. SKETCHED AND PAINTED FROM NATURE...WITH AN INTRODUCTORY POEM BY MRS. L.H. SIGOURNEY. New York: Anson D. F. Randolf, 1864. Eighteen handcolored lithographic plates, each accompanied by a poem on a separate text leaf. Large quarto. Original tan morocco, stamped in blind and gilt, neatly re-backed with original backstrip laid down, raised bands, a.e.g. Extremities rubbed. An occasional fox mark, but plates are generally clean and very bright. Overall very good. In a cloth clamshell case.

Fine colored lithographs of flowers, with poetry by Hooper, May, Hunt, Longfellow, Mrs. Hale, and Felicia Hemans. OCLC locates seven copies of this scarce title.BENNETT, p.81. McGRATH, p.209. OCLC 4063649. $5500.

Life in India in the 17th Century

32. [Murchio, Vincenzo Maria]: IL VIAGGIO ALL’ INDIE ORIENTALI DEL PADRE F. VINCENZO MARIA DI S. CATERINA DA SIENA PROCURA-TOR GENERALE DE’ CARMELITANI SCALZI...DIVISO IN CINQUE LIBRI.... [bound with:] SECONDA SPEDITIONE ALL’ INDIE ORIEN-TALI DI MONSIGNOR SEBASTIANI.... Venice: Appresso Antonio Tiuani, 1683. [16],516,[19]; 147,[5]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum, gilt title on spine. Some persistent dampstaining in lower gutters of many leaves, titlepage bit tanned. Lacking four preliminary leaves of index and dedication, otherwise very good and quite clean.

First published in Rome in 1672, this 1683 edition is the first to contain the Seconda Speditione All’ Indie Orientali of Giuseppe di Sebastiani, which has its own titlepage. An early, very detailed account of travel in India by a Carmelite missionary. The NUC locates only four copies, at Indiana University, Ohio University, Harvard, and Yale. $1750.

First New York Edition

33. Park, Mungo: TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA: PERFORMED UNDER THE DIRECTION AND PATRONAGE OF THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION, IN THE YEARS 1795, 1796, AND 1797...WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING GEOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF AFRICA. New York. 1800. 354,[2],86pp. plus folding map. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage (“Sitgreaves”). Minor foxing and soiling. Very good.

First New York edition, after the first London edition of the previous year, of Park’s initial African expedition and adventures. Park was instructed by the

African Association “to pass on to the River Niger either by way of Bambouk or by such other route as should be found most convenient, to ascertain the course, and if possible the rise and termination, of that river.” Along the way he ex-perienced almost unbelievable depredations, including robberies by local kings, imprisonment, and the loss of everything except his horse, clothing and a pocket compass. He fell ill and would have died had a black man named Kaarta Taura not taken him in for several months. Includes the text of a “Negro Song” and a vocabulary of the Mandigo language. This American edition adds an appendix by Major Rennell giving “Geographical Descriptions of Africa.”EVANS 38189. $1000.

First Rackham Rip Van Winkle

34. Rackham, Arthur [illustrator], and Washington Irving: RIP VAN WINKLE.London: William Heinemann, 1905. Color frontis and fifty color plates (includ-ing a two-plate diptych) tipped to stiff card mounts with captioned tissue guards at end. Quarto. Gilt pictorial vellum, t.e.g. Endsheets a bit foxed, bookplate on front pastedown, silk ties absent, minor rubbing to spine, but a nice copy, very good or better. In a custom cloth case and chemise (spine and extremities sunned).

First Rackham edition, limited issue. One of 250 numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by Rackham. $5250.

Rules for Seizing Slave Ships

35. [Slave Trade]: BY THE COMMISSIONERS FOR EXECUTING THE OFFICE OF LORD HIGH ADMIRAL...IN A TREATY...BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY AND THE KING OF SPAIN, FOR PREVENTING THEIR SUBJECTS FROM ENGAGING IN ANY ILLICIT TRAFFICING [sic] SLAVES.... [London. 1817]. 4pp. Folio. Slight dust soiling. Good. [with:] [LITH-OGRAPHIC TRANSMITTAL LETTER OF THE ABOVE]. London. 1817. 2pp. manuscript. Folio. Very good.

In 1817, England concluded a treaty with Portugal, Spain, and the Dutch to end the trade in slaves from Africa to the New World. This was the beginning of a long crusade by the British to end the slave trade, in pursuit of which they employed their control of the seas and all their diplomatic influence. The first document listed here prints, in double columns of parallel English and Spanish, the conditions under which a slave ship may be seized. The second document is a lithographic letter of transmittal, presumably to a British naval captain. $300.

First French Edition

36. Sparrman, Anders: VOYAGE AU CAP DE BONNE-ESPERANCE, ET AUTOUR DU MONDE AVEC LE CAPITAINE COOK, ET PRINCIPALE-MENT DANS LE PAY DES HOTTENTOTS ET DES CAFFRES. Paris. 1787. Three volumes. xxxii,388; [4],366; [4],363pp., plus sixteen engraved plates (some folding) and large engraved folding map. Uniform contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Some very minor rubbing at extremities. A fresh and especially handsome set. With the bookplate of Nils Rosen in each volume, as well as New York Horticultural Society bookplate on front fly leaf of each volume, noting Kenneth K. Mackenzie’s bequest of the book.

The first French edition, translated from the original Swedish. Sparrman, a zoologist from the University of Uppsala, was at the Cape when Cook’s second expedition arrived, and from 1772 to 1775 he accompanied that party on its famous reconnaissance of the South Pacific. He gives an account of this in the present work. Most of the book is devoted to his experiences in Africa in 1772, 1775, and 1776. An important work of natural history and South Africa material, as well as an interesting account of the Cook expedition. This edition contains a beautiful engraved map of the Cape of Good Hope and sixteen engraved plates of natural history subjects.HILL 1615 (ref). $1250.

The Elusive Limited Edition

37. Stanley, Henry Morton: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY...EDITED BY HIS WIFE, DOROTHY STANLEY. With Sixteen Photogravures and a Map. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., 1909. xvii,551,[1]pp. plus sixteen photogravures (including frontispiece portrait), one folding facsimile letter, and one folding map. Titlepage printed in red and black. Half title. Thick quarto. Original green morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, raised bands, covers ruled and front cover stamped in gilt, gilt-ruled turn-ins, t.e.g. Moderate wear and minor fading to spine and extremities; minor scuffing to boards. Original printed tissue guards intact. Small ink owner-ship inscription on front free endpaper. Extremely light foxing on first few leaves, else fine internally. Very good.

Deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 250 copies signed by Dorothy Stanley, this copy numbered 22. Containing a finely detailed, folding two-color map of central Africa, with Stanley’s routes outlined in three colors and an accompanying outline of England and Wales drawn in the same scale for land size comparison.

Henry Morton Stanley, the most accomplished and celebrated 19th-century African explorer, was also one of his era’s greatest self-inventors, a feat both chronicled and extended in his posthumously published Autobiography. Stanley was born John Rowlands in 1841, the illegitimate son of a housemaid in Wales. As a child, Rowlands suffered years of cruelty at the hands of his family and in the workhouse where he was raised from the age of six. In 1859, Rowlands fled to America and came under the care of a New Orleans cotton merchant named Henry Morton Stanley, who informally adopted Rowlands and gave him his name. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the younger Stanley enlisted in the Confeder-ate Army. In 1862 he fought and was taken prisoner at Shiloh, where, to obtain his release, he enlisted in the Union Army. Soon thereafter, he became a ship’s clerk in the Union Navy and would become one of the few people to see battle from both sides of the Civil War (Hochschild, p.25). Following the war, Stanley was hired as a newspaper correspondent for the St. Louis Missouri Democrat. He was assigned to Gen. Hancock’s army in the Indian campaigns and distinguished himself with dramatic dispatches to both the Democrat and various publications on the East Coast. The entire first half of the book is devoted to Stanley’s ad-ventures in the Civil War and the Plains Indian Wars.

In 1868 The New York Herald hired Stanley to cover war in Abyssinia and in 1869 sent him to find Dr. Livingstone. For the next twenty years Stanley explored and charted much of the African interior, wrote several best-selling books, and helped establish the Congo Free State of Belgian King Leopold II, setting the stage for one of the darkest chapters in the history of European imperialism. In the final years of his life, Stanley lectured widely on his adventures and defended Leop-old’s massive project against international charges of mass murder and de facto slavery. During this time he also worked on his Autobiography, “as he indicates, out of a desire to make his nature and character comprehensible to the world which knew him in the day of his fame” (DAB). The book, which Stanley did not live to complete, was edited and prepared for publication by his wife, Dorothy. Nearly half the work is devoted to Stanley’s early life in Wales and America, the formative years that molded the conquering figure of international renown. “It was the American Stanley,” according to Constance Lindsay Skinner in the DAB, “the man who had seen the wheel-ruts of pioneer wagons on the western prairie and young sturdy towns on recent Indian battle-grounds, who looked at the Congo region and saw nothing there to daunt determined men thoroughly equipped with the means and methods of civilization.” Contemporary scholars write of Stanley and his Autobiography with a less celebratory tone, noting the excesses of his ca-reer as a Congo taskmaster and the various contradictory and probably fanciful elements in his memoirs (Hochschild, pp.23-25, 235). Nevertheless, Stanley’s life and his final book, here in its finest edition, stand as monuments to his era’s boldest notions of personal resolve and self-creation.DAB XVII, pp.509-13. Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost (Houghton Mifflin, 1998). $4500.

One of Forty Deluxe Copies

38. Steinbeck, John: ZAPATA A NARRATIVE, IN DRAMATIC FORM, OF THE LIFE OF EMILIANO ZAPATA. [Covela, Ca.]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1991]. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts (7 full-page). Thick quarto. Three-quarter plum cloth and decorated paper over boards, paper label. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine. In folding cloth box with hasps, in company with enclosures. Small label smudge in lower corner of upper panel of case.

First edition in this format. Illustrated with original woodcuts by Karin Wikström. One of forty numbered copies (of fifty), with the seven large woodcuts handcol-

ored, accompanied by an additional woodcut portrait of Zapata, signed in pencil by the artist, from a total edition of 257 copies printed on French Rives paper in Veronese types, and signed by the artist. A copy of the original prospectus is laid in, as well as the separately printed and bound supplemental text, Zapata the Man the Myth and the Mexican Revolution by Robert E. Morseberger (1/100 copies signed by the author). The substantial original 1949 treatment for the proposed film biography of Zapata by Steinbeck, here published for the first time, and of course differing substantially from the final shooting script for the 1952 film. $2500.

African Tropes in Georgian London

39. [Theatre Broadside]: RICHARDSON’S THEATRE...WHEN WILL BE PERFORMED A NEW ASIATIC MELO DRAME, CALLED THE AFRICANS OR, THE DESOLATE ISLAND...[caption title]. London: Hughes, [n.d., likely ca. 1800]. Broadside, 10 x 7 inches. Printed on blue tinted paper, mounted onto a large later sheet. Near fine. Expertly matted, and protected with mylar sheet.

An engaging broadside for a theatre performance centered around a drama called “The Africans.” The scenery for the play is taken from the work of the intrepid British explorer, Mungo Park, and features views of the African coast and interior, “Omai’s Cave,” and warrior huts. The characters include Omai (an African Chief, evidently confusing him with the famed Omai from the South Seas), warriors named Wahedooa, Tongataboo, Tiaiarboo, and Kiahiargo, and a Princess named Terapo. The bill promises an evening in which “the retributive hand of Provi-dence will manifest its abhorrence of Vice; and Virtue and Constancy eventually triumphant.” A pantomime called “Harlequin Traveller; or a Trip Round the World” would also be performed, the whole evening culminating with a grand panoramic view of the Rock of Gibraltar. $650.

Official Report on the Titanic

40. [Titanic]: SHIPPING CASUALTIES (LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP “TITANIC.”) REPORT OF A FORMAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE FOUNDERING ON 15th APRIL, 1912, OF THE BRITISH STEAMSHIP “TITANIC” OF LIVERPOOL, AFTER STRIKING ICE.... London. 1912. [2],74pp. Folio. Dbd. Minor wear. Very good. In a blue cloth folder.

Uncommon first edition of the official report on the sinking of the Titanic, pro-viding a full accounting of the ship’s technical specifications, its journey, and the disaster which took it to the bottom of the North Atlantic. The report gives an account of the damage, saying that water rushed in at such a rate that “the ship’s pumps could not possibly have coped, so that the damage done to these five com-partments alone inevitably sealed the doom of the ship.” The account of rescue gives a breakdown of passengers and crew who made it into the lifeboats: “The real difficulty in dealing with the question of the boats is to find the explanation of so many of them leaving the ship with comparatively few persons in them.” Statistical analysis, delineated herein, shows what was to be expected – women and children had the highest survival rate, while first- and second-class passengers had better luck in getting into the boats than did those passengers in steerage. The report makes a point, however, of stating unequivocally that third class pas-sengers were not treated unfairly, and that those steerage passengers who spoke English (and therefore, presumably, understood what was going on) were mostly saved. A fascinating and detailed accounting of this most significant of shipping disasters. $2750.

Northern India, Described and Illustrated

41. Torrens, Henry D.: TRAVELS IN LADAK, TARTARY, AND KASHMIR.London. 1863. iv,367pp. including numerous in-text illustrations, plus chromo-lithographic frontispiece, eleven additional chromolithographic plates (two fold-ing), and one folding map. Errata slip following p. iv. Later three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt morocco labels. Calf rubbed, worn at joints and extremities. Very good.

Second edition of Lieut. Col. Henry D. Torrens’ account of his travels in the Trans-Himalayan regions of present-day northern India. The work is illustrated with dozens of chromolithographic and wood-engraved ethnographic portraits and landscape views. The large panoramic folding plates show views of “Kashmir Valley from Soleiman’s Seat to Nishat Bach” and “Lè [Leh], from the Palace...to the Valley of the Indus.” The folding map traces “the Course of the Hindostan and Thibet Road from Kalka in the Plains to Shipkee on the borders of China.” $1500.

Jim Crow in Delaware

42. Townsend, Samuel: TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY [caption title]. [Townsend, De.] July 24, 1876. Broadside, 9 x 7 inches. Some light creasing. Near fine.

Tirade against the perceived disenfranchisement of the “poor white Democratic voter” in Delaware. Townsend rails against a proposed system to elect candidates for the Legislature and Levy Court by delegates, as opposed to an open election by individual ballot. He writes:

“It is a damning insult to poor white Democratic voters to be opposed in this underhand manner by men who seek to lead the Democratic party for their self-ish interests....The white Republicans allow the Negroes in their party to help nominate by an equal vote by ballot, and we, the white Democrats, who claim to be the descendants of Jefferson and Jackson, debar and refuse even-handed political rights and justice to the white Democratic masses.”

Samuel Townsend (1812-1881) was a vigorous and interesting force in Delaware politics. “In this respect historians have portrayed him original, aggressive, and public spirited, as well as a ‘cross for some Democrats to bear.’ Samuel was out-spoken and opinionated, submitting frequent editorials to Delaware newspapers and publishing political broadsides. He attended numerous state Democratic conventions and was a delegate to the national conventions in 1848 and 1852. In 1860, he was a key player in the controversy surrounding Delaware’s delega-tion to the national convention in Charleston and Baltimore. Throughout the Civil War he was an avid supporter of the Union cause, but did not advocate the emancipation of slaves. During Reconstruction, Samuel helped found Delaware’s White Man’s Party, which fought to have the fourteenth and fifteenth amend-ments repealed. Samuel Townsend remained active in politics and business until shortly before his death on 5 December 1881. He was buried in the Friends Cemetery in Odessa, several miles north of Townsend, Delaware, which bears his name” – Townsend Family Papers. OCLC locates only one copy, at the American Antiquarian Society. Rare.OCLC 316965116. University of Delaware, Townsend Family Papers (online). $750.

Satirical Scenes with a Classical Theme

43. Worth, Thomas: PLUTARCH RESTORED: AN ANACHRONATIC METEMPSYCHOSIS, ILLUSTRATING THE ILLUSTRIOUS OF GREECE AND ROME. New York: George Ward Nichols, 1862. [102]pp. including twenty-four lithographs, with one page of letterpress accompanying each. Oblong quarto. Original green cloth, gilt-stamped cover. Fine.

Here are sporting scenes, political matters, women’s rights, and additional sub-jects. Often the topic of choice is the African American, who appears several

times in the present volume. In one scene, Worth takes a comment by Plutarch about Darius and shows a dissipated old man holding a mint julep, attended by a black waiter. “Even today many [of these designs] are genuinely amusing” – Hamilton. “The drawings are skillfully made and are full of good fun, burlesquing the outstanding events in the lives of the ancient great by means of introducing topically incongruous details” – Murrell. Worth (1834-1917) was well known for his caricatures, especially those of Negro life, such as Darktown Fire Brigade.MURRELL, p.212. HAMILTON, p.225. $750.

Travels in France

44. Young, Arthur: TRAVELS DURING THE YEARS 1787, 1788, & 1789; UNDERTAKEN MORE PARTICULARLY WITH A VIEW OF ASCERTAIN-ING THE CULTIVATION, WEALTH, RESOURCES, AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY OF THE KINGDOM OF FRANCE.... London. 1794. Two volumes bound in one. 629,[3]; 336,[4]pp., plus three folding maps (1 handcol-ored). Large, thick quarto. Contemporary calf, spine gilt extra, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles. Boards detached, head and foot of spine chipped. Occasional light foxing, especially to maps, else internally clean. About very good.

The second edition, after the first of 1792. Young, having produced many travel narratives, left Dover for France in May 1787, returning in November. In 1788 he made another trip to France, and again in 1789, continuing into Italy and part of Spain. His massive daily journal includes his impressions and observations during his tours (pp.305-36, appended to the second volume, deal exclusively with Spain). Some of the major cities visited were Bordeaux, Paris, Versailles, Marseilles, Milan, Verona, Venice, Florence and Barcelona. The second part of the first volume is a lengthy study of French agriculture, produce, manufacture, and the revolution, the beginnings of which he witnessed in Paris and Versailles. Not in Cox. $850.